Subject: Re: State of Play
To: [This is my bacque pas, this is my faux pas] <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@tmonline.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/09/1998 11:03:52
At 9:36 PM -0800 3/8/98, greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com ([This is my bacque
pas, this i wrote:
>I'm blown away by the constant state of flux we seem to be in.  I don't
>remember seeing so many changes fly by during the 1.2 -> 1.3 stage of
>NetBSD; maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
>
>ANYway, the prospect of upgrading from stock 1.3 is actually beginning
>to appear daunting to me; I'm really worried from reading everything
>of late that I'm really going to hose something.  Does anyone have a
>known working snapshot of NetBSD/sparc in binary form that I could
>snarf from somewhere?
>

I've been running -current kernels and 1.3 userland binaries since the
release, and except for a few problems caused by the switch to UVM,
everything continues to run fine. I don't think there have been new
userland snapshots since the 1.3 release. I may hook up an extra drive and
build one myself if I can get motivated.

Brad

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