Adam Glass writes:

>My executive summary is that it would take 1 day to swallow the guts
>of the sprite dec boot code, and combine it with some already existing
>code to open files on UFS.

Fine. I'm sure you could.  When are you going to?  The problem is,
nobody seems to *want* to, and at the same time, the NetBSD core team
seems to be collectively saying ``booting ECOFF isn't important'',
``this is a trivial issue'', and ``it's not worth solving'', all at
the same time.