Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:

>On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>> Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on,
>> however, is really asking for something quite different.  Since you
>> can't make more than small, mechanical changes to anything and expect
>> it to work without testing (and I'm not even sure about the small,
>> mechanical changes) what is being asked instead is that nothing be
>> done that requires changes to the ARCNET code on the disk right
>> now, nor the framework it relies on to operate, while making it
>> someone else's problem to figure out how to deal with that constraint.
>> This isn't fair, and I don't think it has any possibility of working.

>Amen.

There are several NetBSD developers that own ARCNET hardware and
that could help out. You could also get new cards, at "industry" prices.



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