Re: Anyone fancy porting libffi to VAX?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 05/23/2012 06:37 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
>>  It's good to see the VAX port getting some lovin' nowadays.  It needs
>> to be kept alive one way or another.  I have most of my small VAXen at
>> my new place in PA now, and I hope to bring up NetBSD on one of them
>> within the next week or so.  It helps to feed the soul. :)
> 
> Since the netbsd-6 branch reverted to gcc-4.1 my 4000/90 has been
> much happier.

  I bet.

> I was chatting with someone interested in Linux/vax and offered
> him an account, he asked about irssi which is how I found out that
> libffi was not supported by vax.
> 
> From my perspective VAX has similar characteristics to an unusual
> embedded system, (just built using steam pipes & valves), so should
> be able to run the same basic apps, tools, and even graphical apps.

  Sure.  There's no good reason why not.  The later ones are reasonably
quick, as you know.  The real limitation is only that of toolchains.

> Actually, if you have time could you test the latest intall boot
> & kernel from http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-6/
> on a selection of VAXen and email the dmesg back to the list - you
> don't need to install onto disk, just test boot :)

  I would be happy to do so.  Perhaps I'll be able to set up a few
machines this weekend for that.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA