Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> options         COMPAT_SUNOS    # SunOS 4.x binary compatibility
> I too wondered if that works at all anymore... and how, would you
> need some kind of userland?

You would.  At a minimum, you need the SunOS program you want to run;
if it's dynamically linked, you need its dynamic linker (ld.so) and the
libraries it depends on.  You may need additional pieces too, depending
on what it's doing.

It has worked on a few occasions for me, but those were on now-old
NetBSD; I don't know whether it's bitrotted in more recent versions.

>> options         PPP_BSDCOMP     # Add BSD compression to ppp device
>> options         PPP_DEFLATE     # Add deflate (libz) compression to ppp device
>> options         PPP_FILTER      # Add active filters for ppp (via bpf)
>> <anyone still using ppp on their sparc for internet service?>
> No, I suppose not...

Likely not, but only because you said "for internet service"; PPP is
not restricted to "internet service", and can be useful for one-offs
links between two machines in various circumstances.  (Personally, I
find SLIP more useful than PPP, but that's mostly because of the kinds
of use cases I have.)

>> ch*     at scsibus? target ? lun ?              # SCSI changer devices
>> ss*     at scsibus? target ? lun ?              # SCSI scanners
>> ses*    at scsibus? target ? lun ?              # SCSI SES/SAF-TE

> scanners I presume not...

I've got a SCSI-connected scanner; it's my principal scanner.
(However, it's something of a subversion for these purposes as it shows
up, and is used by sane, as uk*, not as ss*.)  I had, and may still
have, a disk enclosure which shows up as ses* in addition to the drives
in it.

>> pseudo-device   raid
>> options         RAID_AUTOCONFIG         # auto-configuration of RAID components
>> <anyone running big RAID configs on their old Sun workstation?>
> I don't.... but maybe omeone has nice SunServers or such!

They don't have to be big.  On a few occasions I've used RAIDframe not
for its "weld disks together" functionality but rather for its "put
this disk space on a predictable device", most valuable for root
(RAID_AUTOCONFIG plus raidctl -A yes obviates the need to have root
appear on a predictable device - for example, a disk which is sometimes
attached via an external USB enclosure and sometimes attached directly
to SATA can benefit from having a one-disk mirror marked -A yes,
especially in cases where something goes wrong with boot device
detection.)

>> ## SLIP and CSLIP interfaces, for IP over a serial line.
>> pseudo-device   sl
> I suppose SLIP is no longer used since the '90ies when I connected
> with 14k4 modems, or?

I occasionally find SLIP useful for one-off connections to machines
which have unsupported or broken - or just plain absent - Ethernet.
For one-offs, I find SLIP significantly more usable than PPP.

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