Re: mutexes, locks and so on...

[Andrew Doran <ad%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:50:52AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> Over 15 years ago NetBSD had a possibility to take everyone into
> >> account [...]
> > So what you are arguing is that MI needn't be so much MI anymore, and
> > that supporting anything more than mainstream today is more to be
> > considered a lucky accident than a desired goal?
> 
> Looks to me like pretty much exactly what pooka was saying.
> 
> > Oh well!  I guess I should go away now.
> 
> And me, and everyone else running anything but x86_64 (and, maybe,
> i386; I don't know whether that's sufficiently modern to count).
> 
> Compilers that page themselves to death unless given over twice the RAM
> a uV2 maxes out at.  Decisions driven by "a megabyte of disk costs
> what, $0.00008?".  Now this.
> 
> bqt, wanna start a fork?  Looks as though NetBSD no longer supports
> most of the architectures it used to.

That idea could have merit.