On Jun 16, 11:06am, tege@swox.com (Torbjorn Granlund) wrote:
-- Subject: Incorrect information on www.netbsd.org

| NetBSD no longer works on important machines, but www.netbsd.org claims
| otherwise.  I have run NetBSD on my Alphas and Macintoshes for several
| years, but 1.4 just panics on all machines I have tried so far.  My and
| other people's bug reports are silently ignored.

We are sorry that you had such bad luck with 1.4, but I don't think that
your bug reports are being ignored. We are working on fixing them, but
sometimes it is difficult to duplicate the bugs on different hardware.

For example I cannot run 1.4 either on two of my machines. One has
'we' cards and it panics just after it enables ipf, and the other is
a no name amd-k6 box and it just keeps rebooting at the second stage
boot blocks. Should I go remove that we support from the i386, when
it works on so many other machines.

| Of course, nobody can demand that you fix bugs unless they pay you to do so.
| But one can ask you not to claim support for machines where the current
| release just plain doesn't work.

This works both ways: In order to stop claiming support for those
platforms, the portmaster needs to verify that they really don't work
and it is up to her/him to try to fix the bug, or remove the claims
of support.

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| NetBSD 1.4 is the first NetBSD release I have come across that has caused me
| any problems whatsoever.  All previous releases have worked great.  But
| NetBSD 1.4 fails to operate at all on the systems I have tried so far.

Again we are sorry, and we hope that we will fix the problems soon.

christos