Subject: Re: current port-vax status
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@gw.softjar.se>
From: Patrick Finnegan <vax@purdue.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/16/2006 14:29:06
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:28, you wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nathan Schepers wrote:
> > Fair enough, and I suppose I should have expected that.  :)  It wasn't
> > then either, though, and it *was* a good little community.  I was just
> > looking for an interesting and obscure project to work on in my spare
> > time.  If there's not much here these days, perhaps there's another
> > architecture that I should set my sights on.  Any ideas?
>
> Actually, there are a number of things in NetBSD/vax to work on. It's just
> that Ragge seem to be pretty absent right now, and others don't say much.
> But I don't mind having a little talk about things that should be done.
>
> For starters, it would be nice if build.sh could run the whole way through
> a build. A new gcc would be very welcome as well, as would a working boot
> for netbooting.
>
> And then my personal wish-list includes getting the environment sensors of
> the 8600 working. I believe there is some environment daemon in the i386
> that it would be nice to hook into here.
>
> And of course we have the never ending CI-story... :-)

Add to that DSSI support, and support for the VAXstation 3520/3540, and VAX 
6000 support, which would be nice to have. :)

Oh yeah, and IIRC, the RL(V)11 needs to be fixed.

Pat
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