Re: [7.0-BETA on RPI] Some corrections!

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 2 May 2015, Yass Amed wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've successfully installed NetBSD 7-Beta (2015-04-29) on the raspberry pi
> (Model B), and noticed a few things
> that might need some attention (nothing major at the moment):
>
> * While the instructions in <
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/> are useful,
> the "growing the root file-system" section states that it is "not required
> with NetBSD -current after 2015-04-07"
> might not be true because I had to follow the instructions in order to
> expand the root slice.
> (OR) I'm misunderstanding what the NetBSD-Current is. As stated above,
> 'uname -a' yields NetBSD 7.0-BETA.
> I know the top 3 BSDs (inclusive) are different, but they seem to use the
> same naming convention for their release engineering.
> For instance, FreeBSD and OpenBSD use -Current for their upcoming
> (currently under development) releases. So, does NetBSD
> follow the same logic?

For NetBSD, -current means the top-of-HEAD development.  This is quite 
different from 7.0-Beta, which was branched from HEAD some months ago. 
Since that time, limited fixes have been "pulled up" from HEAD to the 
branch.

I am unsure of whether or not the slice-size fix was pulled up; from 
your problem description, I would guess "not".  :)


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