On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:00:40 -0700, "Garrett D'Amore"
<garrett_damore@tadpole.com> wrote:

> FYI, I just sent this proposal to core for consideration.  Those of you
> who have ports that have not kept up with the features table at
> http://www.netbsd.org/developers/features might want to take this time
> to figure out if any of those issues can be tackled.
> 
> I'm especially keen to get all the ports converted to timecounters and
> generic-todr.
> 
I think there are some other points that are implicit in your note....

(a) #ifdef is *evil*.  We use it too much; we should try to avoid using
it at all.

(b) Our MI coding isn't as "I" as it should be,

(c) There is a significant cost to important platforms if we insist on
supporting every last toaster and windmill that could once run NetBSD.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb