Manuel Bouyer wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:47:45PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:In its current form SA threading is a regressive proposition. Even if all the remaining issues are addressed, what benefits would it bring over and above 1:1 threading?Be able to run a netbsd-4 or netbsd-3 userland on a netbsd-5 kernel.
Which is very useful when doing things like building packages in a chroot for installation to another machine. I do just that as I have a production machine runninng netbsd-4, but my build machine is running netbsd-current, and up until now I couldn't use an unmodified netbsd-4 chroot image.
eric