On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Todd Vierling wrote:

> Yes.  Among the tasks that need to be done to make this happen:
>
> * rip out UVM and UBC entirely via #if conditionals, and replace with buffer
>   cache only

Given that UVM and UBC are relatively new things to NetBSD, one has to ask
why UVM and UBC aren't already separated out.

> * rework toolchain to produce PIC code for all userland, including linked
>   binaries

For some architectures (including the ARM), it is quite difficult to write
non-PIC code. Of course, the toolchain still manages it. :)

> I'd estimate that the above alone would take at least several months.

Yes it probably would. But arguably it shouldn't.

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