On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:51:42AM -0500, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > Appreciate your response. I feel confident I can install. More curious about > what isn't supported yet. Such as multiple processors, altq, and the like.
yeah, SMP is what isn't working. I don't know what makes it eventually panic, though it does make it to multiuser in -current. Modules also won't work, you will need everything as a builtin. MIPS has* fixed size instructions, so 64bit instructions are very big, and so it runs a 32bit userland that only runs on 64bit CPUs, kinda like the amd64 x32 ABI. Most architectures don't have as good a reason to do it, so MIPS is the 'official 32bit compat tester'. Most bugs of missing features were actually missing 32bit compat. I suspect we forgot to backport some things. I have an ERLITE, but I don't use it as a router, so I can't tell you how well it does. MIPS is just my favourite architecture. Other netbsd people do use it as a router though. * They now made a variant which isn't like this
