Re: Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?

2020-01-15 Thread David Brownlee via cctalk
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 19:34, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 1/14/20 9:47 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: > > > The code is quite old and the drivers are not MP safe, so its being > > proposed that the code be dropped > > Goose step to the monocuture > > netBSD, we USED to run on

Re: Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?

2020-01-14 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:34:00AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Goose step to the monoculture Apparently you don't understand that "maintaining software requires effort". If you want to make changes to e.g. a kernel then there are things that have to get changed to keep in sync. Someone

Re: Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?

2020-01-14 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/14/20 9:47 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: > The code is quite old and the drivers are not MP safe, so its being > proposed that the code be dropped Goose step to the monocuture netBSD, we USED to run on everything..

Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?

2020-01-14 Thread David Brownlee via cctalk
NetBSD still has code for various interesting^W older network protocols such as ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, and Strip. The code is quite old and the drivers are not MP safe, so its being proposed that the code be dropped, with the understanding that if anyone wanted to step forward to update