Subject: Re: NetBSD/pc532 directions
To: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 06/19/2006 22:18:41
"Ken Seefried" <ken@seefried.com> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
>
>> Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net> writes:
>>> I'm not sure I want to bring this up, but...
>>>
>>> Do we want to:
>>> 1) Do the necessary work to make the PC532 work with /current again
>>> 2) Leave a note saying that you should do a cvs co -D <whenever>
>>>          if you want to get anything useful for it
>>> 3) Just leave it all as it is to further bit-rot

>> I think we should decommission the port if it is not in working order
>> by some given date -- I'd propose October 1. I don't like doing
>> that, but if we can't have it fixed and working at some certain date
>> in the future, clearly we aren't in a position to maintain this any
>> more.
>
> Shame to see it go, as it's actually a distinct "architecture", as
> opposed to "yet another board that uses mips/arm/ppc/x86 with somewhat
> different I/O".

Yes, it is a shame, but realistically, we have finite resources. I
think the only real hope is an emulator.

Perry