Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:

> 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.

This tricky "could!" It almost never answers the question, whether it is
some hypothetical possibility or readiness to act.


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