The following reply was made to PR bin/29158; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: fredb@immanent.net (Frederick Bruckman)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: anders@dinsen.net
Subject: Re: bin/29158: raidctl(8) states that reading kernel from raid set is not possible
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:41:02 -0600 (CST)

 In article <20050130064600.D9F7863B845@narn.netbsd.org>,
 	anders@dinsen.net writes:
 
 >  Note that kernels can only be directly read from RAID 1 components on
 > -alpha and pmax architectures.
 > +some architectures (e.g. alpha, i386, pmax and sparc).
 >  On those architectures, the
 >  .Dv FS_RAID
 >  file system is recognized by the bootblocks, and will properly load the
 
 According to raid(4), sparc64 and vax can be added to the set.
 
 Also, we can't patch the release branch directly.  A change needs
 to be made to raid.8 (current) to add sparc, sparc64 and vax, then
 a pull-up request made for the whole thing (1.41, 1.42, plus the
 new change).
 
 
 Frederick