Re: workaround for FreeBSD binary that hardcodes a device major (was: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf)

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> Has anyone approached the vendor about working with them to supply a
> NetBSD binary?  FreeBSD is hardly mainstream (though it has more presence
> in data centers than NetBSD does); they might be willing, if some
> developer were will to do the necessary legwork and builds, and was
> willing to sign their NDA.

I asked them. The reply was that there was not enough interest for
NetBSD.

If I had more time to spend on that issue, I think I'll spend it
reverse-engineering their tool to provide an open source replacement for
the most basic functions (enumerating drives, creating and deleting
units). Having a NetBSD build of tw_cli would be nice, but it would only
help on i386, and possibly amd64, using compat_netbsd32.

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