> 
> 
> > This maybe a solution to the cdrom boot problem, not?
> 
> I don't see how you expect to be able to boot off the same CD-ROM on
> multiple architectures, so I'm not sure there's any real reason to
> even be discussing cdfs.   If all boot proms supported ISO-9660
> directly, we'd be in business, but I'm pretty sure that that's not the
> case.

you are right. But in the case we get the system booting
with the correct kernel we could easily start a script or whatever
is needed to give different platforms different hostnames
and from then on use a common binary tree (with cdf).
Of course fat bins are more elegant in this case..

> 
> > > 4. improved sup with diff downloading for little changes
> > no opinions
> 
> I think this is a good idea in principle, but there are a lot of
> improvements I'd make to sup before this one.   Also, in order for sup
> to usefully generate diffs, it would have to learn to talk to CVS, and
> would have to keep revision control information on the sup client
> machine.   So what you're describing could be more of a complete
> rewrite.

for me as someone who sups via ppp its an important point to
reduce overhead.

> 
> > > 5. merging of xserver sources for all platforms, integration in
> > >    netbsd source tree
> > no opinions
> 
> I wouldn't say that.   I think it's a bad idea for NetBSD to try to
> maintain a source tree and keep it in sync with MIT.   I used to work
> at NCD, and we did exactly that.   It was a hell of a lot of work, and
> we didn't really succeed (in some cases we didn't want to).
> 
> The XFree86 Consortium is doing a pretty good job on this front, and
> I'm not sure why we'd want to change that.

This all sounds nice but in fact MIT only supports Xservers for certain
platforms. There most probably never will be a Amiga,Atari,...
support. But today the X-stuff is very important for an OS and
so the only way to hold netbsd "complete" is support the
X-stuff to be precise the Xserver. More and more X availability
gets a central question imho.

thanks,
ciao
Carsten