On 3/13/14 3:18 AM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> On 3/13/14 10:57 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote:
>> On 3/13/14 2:39 AM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>> I'm not a mentor, but I'd be happy to help you in any way I can.
>>> You can send mails to tech@ for testing your diffs.
>>
>> Any chance you'd like to review my bootloader patch from last month
>> then?
>
> I'm not a committer, but I can test your diff once I get back home.
> I have a sparc64 machine. It needs to powered on. Your best bet is
> asking a guy who hacks on Sparc64. Check out the commit logs to see
> who last hacked on that area.

Ofwboot hasn't had many substantive changes in years. There was the
early entropy stuff, PIE stuff, and some minor cleanups, but otherwise
it's just been left alone. (as it should IMO. it's minimal and that's
what I want. I consider this patch to reduce the complexity of the
required booting infrastructure in general, as it eliminates the
need for more daemons and stuff on your lan.)

I was wondering whether I should bug kettenis@ about it since AFAIK
he's the main sparc64 guy, but the part that I think maybe should
change before it's considered for OKs is the ugly (although I'm pretty
sure correct) NFS URL parsing code, which really anybody could look at
as it isn't hardware-specific.

Is it considered rude to bug specific people about patches? I assumed
someone would step forward if they were interested, and if nobody was
interested, then it didn't belong in the tree.

>> I see. OpenNTPD was actually one of the services I hilighted as a
>> potentially good candidate in the short proposal thing I submitted
>> as google's requirement.
>
> Is that proposal available online ?

No, but it didn't contain anything I haven't said in some form on
tech@ by now anyway, except for the "Provide a schedule estimate
with dates and important milestones in two week increments." which
I'm sure wasn't accurate anyway.

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