Hello again.
I completely missed this message from 25th March :
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2026/03/26/msg001459.html
Which means I left the machine running OpenBSD 7.8 and tried to get a
GCC bootstrap going. That has been a real nightmare let me tell you.
No one seems to know how to make that happen and I am still digging.
I would hope that the world of NetBSD would be far more reasonable *if*
it would only run stable with the src/sys/dev/ic/isp.c situation[1].
From the message posted 25 Mar 2026 19:05:14 -0700 by Jason Thorpe we
see that there is a "scavenged" ISP1020A board out of a AlphaStation 200
unit.
To allow for NetBSD experiments I now have isolated the OpenBSD to a
single external Sun Microsystems disk pack :
https://www.genunix.com/dclarke/alpha/external_SCSI_disk_pack_m.png
This is not ideal but it works. However it beats the BlueSCSI hackary
all day long and all night. The other Sun SCSI storage array is standing
by doing nothing much. It will be used for NetBSD experiments. In this
way I have isolated the OpenBSD away from the NetBSD storage quite well.
The only minor inconvenience is that I need to shutdown to the firmware
and then swap SCSI cables. That is minor. I track my updates at :
https://www.genunix.com/dclarke/alpha/
Nothing there about Tru64 UNIX(tm) simply because I could not bear
another moment of it.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
[1] LeeLoo Dallas "Multi-Pass" buddaboom line 5053 sys/dev/ic/isp/isp.c
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2026/03/10/msg001446.html
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