Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:
>
>>On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>>> Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on,
>>> however, is really asking for something quite different.  Since you
>>> can't make more than small, mechanical changes to anything and expect
>>> it to work without testing (and I'm not even sure about the small,
>>> mechanical changes) what is being asked instead is that nothing be
>>> done that requires changes to the ARCNET code on the disk right
>>> now, nor the framework it relies on to operate, while making it
>>> someone else's problem to figure out how to deal with that constraint.
>>> This isn't fair, and I don't think it has any possibility of working.
>
>>Amen.
>
> There are several NetBSD developers that own ARCNET hardware and
> that could help out. You could also get new cards, at "industry" prices.
>

Okay, I have wanted to hear that. It would be helpful that
someone try ARCNET occasionally whether it still works
and alarm if we break something.

Thanks,
  ozaki-r