Re: amd64 or i386?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 8:21 Uhr +1100 05.03.2009, Carl Brewer wrote:
> The new motherboard has an ethernet chip not supported in 4.0.1
> (realtek 8168B/8111B Rev 0.02) so I'm going to have to go to 5.0RC2
> I guess or fiddle with unreleased kernels.

Unfortunately, 4.1 is slow in the making... 4.0.1 is really only 4.0 
with security patches and fatal bug fixes. No fixes for every day 
bugs, no driver updates.

But, instead of going to netbsd-5 which may come with hidden dragons, 
you could just get a nightly snapshot from the netbsd-4 branch (see 
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/>. The netbsd-4 
kernels are binary compatible with NetBSD 4 release, so you can drop 
in the new kernel and see how it goes.

        hauke

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