Re: Porting NetBSD to SGI Fuel?

[Silas <silas%nocafe.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 07:44:52AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> If it runs on OpenBSD it should not be very hard to port the relevant
> code to NetBSD...

Hi!

My investigations say that it is more complex than that.  I just found a 
message in port-sgimips [1] about NetBSD not supporting SGI Octane 
because there is no mips64 support in the toolchain (apparently 
confirmed by http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/), although an answer 
to this e-mail [2] does say there is mips64 support.

I was told privately the mips64 toolchain support is essential for 
porting code from OpenBSD, and NetBSD lacks that.  I would like to 
confirm that with you.

Besides this thread, I've also sent e-mail to people and some kindly 
answered with tips and documentation, although nobody has the time for a 
mentoring project right now.  Anyway, I'm still at your disposal for 
that project (going to receive the SGI Fuel this week :-]).

[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2017/08/31/msg000726.html
[2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2017/09/01/msg000727.html

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Silas