On 09/28/2013 08:09 PM, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
(3) Restore MIPS support for NetBSD 6 and current
Sadly all my MIPS device is not usable with NetBSD 6 and current.
If NetBSD 7 is released, NetBSD 5 support is dropped, and
I cannot use supported NetBSD/mips on any MIPS hardware.
In this case, I have spare NetBSD/cobalt machine (Cobalt raq), and
I can send it to project worker worldwide.
Just my $.02 worth...
I have several Cobalt units - one of which I'm going to be loading with
NetBSD 5 on a CF card here as soon as the card shows up in the mailbox.
The issue here as I see it is there is a limited number of these boxes
and they aren't making any more of them. And even with NetBSD these
boxes are getting comparatively slower every year while kernels and such
get bigger every year. Personally even as a NetBSD Cobalt user, and
happy, I can see where the effort to keep those in the tree might be not
worth it overall.
That said I too would like them to keep it in there too just for
security reasons but since those boxes are often giving way to VMs that
eat less and are current I just don't see it happening.
But I've been wrong before. :-)
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