>> 
>> I've recently brought up NetBSD on my sparc at home. Things seem to
>> be working great. But, I've noticed some things are missing. Things
>> like STREAMS and other varius sundry things in the kernel. Anyways,
>> I work at Sun on kernel issues and device drivers. I deal with SBus
>> cards and the hardware extensively.
>> 
>> I would like to contribute to the group. Do you think that the NetBSD
>> group could use my services..
>> 
>> -brad w.
>
>Oh yes pulease! If you know anything about esp drivers! 
>
>Neil.
>
>-- 
>Neil J. McRae.                                            Demon Internet
>neil@demon.net
>    NetBSD: There is no <a href="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">substitute.</a>

 Brad,
  I want to echo what someone else said - you've got to be VERY VERY
careful to clear this with your Corporate folks before starting
work. Given Sun's public attitude about people producing competing
OSes to SunOS/Solaris in the past, you're going to find it tough
going. I know that I will have to fill out endless paperwork and
grovel a lot to get permission from my company to contribute any work
to NetBSD, and we don't do much OS work! I'm sure you'll have to be
careful about incorporating or using proprietary information from Sun,
AT&T (USL), or whoever in your work for NetBSD. If you can get
permission to do this work, I'll sure be glad to have you. Sbus
standards and device drivers expertise is greatly needed.
  As far as STREAMS and other SVisms go, you should try hard to make
sure that it's an option that can easily be configured out. Kernel
bloat is still one of the worst problems with all modern Unix-alikes,
and I don't want to add more memory usage to my kernels for features
that I frankly shudder at having to use. ;)
	Greg