>   This is also one of my primary reasons for wanting a new OS. 
>   Among other interest, I got a kernel built last night and booted it.
> Since I hadn't config'ed it for NFS mounted root, it died config'ing
> the interface.
>   I had to hack compat/sunos/sun_exec.c quite a lot though. The hacks
> were obvious, I realized, and probably related to me making
> sun3/machdep.c (er, or something like that) use the stuff from
> compat/sunos/sun_exec.c instead of the 'local' COMPAT_SUNOS stuff.
>   This confuses me since I know the Sparc people are using that code
> aren't they? It relates to changes in exec.h. 
>   Maybe I've mixed magnum and non-magnum stuff, I'm not sure.
> 

No changes should've been necessary at all.

I believe you've mixed and matched magnum and non-magnum stuff.  You
were one of the few people who had the magnum stuff at all.

I suggest you rm -rf src/sys and replace it with the stuff available
via sup currently.

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>  Michael Richardson  WORK: mcr@ccs.carleton.ca         (Conservation Ecology)
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