Re: About Kurobox

["Joel CARNAT" <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

>> Then, I had to apply externally provided patches onto the netbsd-4
>> source
>> tree. There seem to exist patches for -HEAD too but I didn't try them
>> (yet).
>
> We'd appreciate it if you could give -current a shot - we rewrote
> half of the powerpc-specific code ( like interrupt handling,
> bus_space, bus_dma, PCI support and so on ) and there was a hell of a
> lot of development in the rest of the kernel as well ( and userland,
> like threading for instance ).
> The right person to ask about sandpoint is Tohru Nishimura
> (nisimura%netbsd.org@localhost) - he wrote the sandpoint-specific code and
> actually made the port work properly again.

I failed applying the patches to 4.99.55 source tree.
There seem to be a lot of difference between before/after ppcoe-renovation.

I got the confirmation from the author that those patches only apply
before ppcoe-renovation.

I'll ping if ever new patches come (and work).

Best regards,
     Jo