Anita now supports sparc

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Hello Sparc users,

Anita, the Automated NetBSD Installation and Test Application, now
supports sparc as a target architecture.  This means you can download,
install, and boot NetBSD/sparc in a qemu-based virtual machine with a
one-line command, for example:

  anita interact http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/5.0.2/sparccd-5.0.2.iso

This was tested by cross-installing NetBSD/sparc on a NetBSD/i386
host.  It has not been tested on a NetBSD/sparc host, and there seem
to be some issues with building qemu on sparc at the moment.

Anita successfully installs NetBSD/sparc 4.0.1 and 5.0.2, but
attempting to install -current results in an "Unhandled Exception
0x00000009" early in the boot process.  It would be great if someone
familiar with the sparc port could track down the cause of this and
fix it so that anita could be used to run automated regression tests
of the sparc port on a regular basis.

Anita is available in pkgsrc as misc/py-anita.  Make sure to get
version 1.13 or newer.  For more information about anita, see the
anita home page <http://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/>.

Yours,
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost