> On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Simon Burge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> ... whether or not disc
>> brakes are appropriate for road racing bicycles.
>
> Having recently converted, the answer is "yes". No debate needed :)
I guess I'm just a luddite, but I do have disc brakes on my tandem :-)
ANYWAY...
I've made a bunch of progress on this, so far converting every architecture
except for ia64 at this point ... I may punt on that and let someone else worry
about fixing it up (i.e. I'll add stubs that just error out) .. I refreshed the
toolchains on my builder overnight, and am going to build test kernels for most
of the platforms we support. I'll test what I have hardware for, and what I
can quickly set up simulators for, but I'm going to need help from others to
get this all tested.
Things that I can easily test directly:
-- amd64 (using a VMware VM)
-- i386 (using a VMware VM)
-- aarch64 (using a Pinebook)
-- arm (using an ARMv6 Raspberry Pi) -- will exercise the ARMv4 and
pre-ARMv4 code paths in this case.
I'm going to spend some time over the next few evenings getting Qemu emulators
up and running for smattering of systems (although I have been having trouble
getting Qemu guest networking working on a macOS host). What I plan to test
under Qemu:
-- mips (32-bit, at least)
-- powerpc
-- sparc
-- sparc64
...and if I get around to setting up SIMH, I will test vax myself, as well.
I'll need help with everything else... ping me off list if you can help!
Happily, I have an ATF unit test that exercises all of new functions, so anyone
willing to volunteer to help me test it will have an easy time of it.
-- thorpej
