I'm a recent proud owner of a SPARCstation 20 on which I've been
running NetBSD for the last few days. Both of its old mechanical disks
are dead, but it works just fine with an internal BlueSCSI v2.
Do you all think it would be reasonable to include the dse(4) driver
in the GENERIC kernel to support the DaynaPort network card emulation
provided by BlueSCSI and the like? I've tested NetBSD 11 RC2 with dse
enabled on my SPARCstation 20, and it works fine. Some dmesg spam
("dse0: should have flushed queue?"), but good enough performance to
use comfortably.
For some other platforms on which SCSI emulator boards are popular
(alpha, mac68k, atari, next68k), the dse(4) driver is in GENERIC
already.
I mostly ask because I would like to run -current on my SPARCstation
and don't particularly want to cross-compile kernels all the time.