Markus Baeurle wrote:
> It's better to use sup to fetch the current sources from the NetBSD sup 
> server (or preferably one of its mirrors). Install the sup set and read 
> the instructions. If you can't get it to work, you can always ask me, 
> because I have it running.
> 
> One snag with this is however that Mark is always very busy and didn't 
> check in the latest changes, so you will not get a kernel with the 
> features of bsd-4444 but rather one comparable with bsd-4130 or so (plus 
> the changes to the machine independent part made by other persons from 
> the core team of NetBSD). I hope that Mark will find some time to 
> check the latest changes in soon.

As I understand it, this is because two branches of the kernel source
are being maintained.  One has all the latest new features, both in
the arm32-specific sections and the machine independent sections.
This is the branch Mark compiled bsd-4444 from.

Then there's another branch which only gets bugfixes, again both for
the arm32-specific code and for the machine independent code.  This
will eventually settle down and be labelled a "release" version.
Unfortunately (for RiscBSD users) this branch is what the sup server
gives you when you ask for "current".

-- 
Aidan