Subject: Re: testers needed
To: Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann@gmail.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/10/2007 21:05:20
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Hello,

On May 10, 2007, at 20:33, Joachim Thiemann wrote:

> On 10/05/07, Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> wrote:
>> as you might have noticed a branch has been created ( 
>> ppcoea-renovation
>> ) in order to share more code between the various PowerPC-based ports.
>
> Should one be running -current or can those of us on stable branches
> help too? (I'm using the netbsd-3 tag)

non-current userlands should work as long as you don't use threads ( 
the threading mechanism changed a while ago ). If you do you'll have to 
update libpthread but that's it.
Anyway, if the new code causes trouble you'll likely notice before any 
userland stuff is run.

have fun
Michael

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