On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

[openbsd romp/rt port]

> Well, I'm interested in ROMP/RT, but I certainly would never willingly
> contribute to their port :-)

I'm not on the -ports mailing list, but I cc'ed it in case others are
interested.

Indeed - I'm thinking about striking out on my own, with NetBSD as my
base.  I've always been more of a NetBSD'er and an OpenBSD'er anyway.

>  > I'm thinking about getting involved in a port, and the RT appeals to me
>  > for whatever reason (probably because I have one), and I'm wondering where
>  > to invest my efforts.
>
> The biggest challenge is going to be the toolchain.  GCC's ROMP bits have
> been stale for quite some time, and someone needs to do an ELF ABI and
> implementation for the ROMP.

Indeed - I am looking forward to a good challenge!


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