Re: why inet6 for certain ports for sysinst?

"Jeremy C. Reed" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:47:32PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > It looks like IPv6 is only available in sysinst for amd64, cats, hp700, 
> > i386, ibmnws, macppc, ofppc, rs6000, x68k, zaurus. (This means that 
> > ping6 and rtsol aren't installed; and the autoconfiguration code is not 
> > included in sysinst.)
> 
> I don't think it is intentional, it just is not well documented (I always
> wanted to fix it for sparc64 but had no idea how). It is activated
> by port here:
> 
>   amd64 (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/amd64/ramdisks/ramdisk/Makefile#7)
>   ofppc (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/ofppc/ramdisks/ramdisk/Makefile#6)
>   i386 (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/ramdisk-big/Makefile#8)
>   cobalt (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/cobalt/ramdisk/Makefile#25)
>   hp700 (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/hp700/ramdisk/Makefile#24)
>   ibmnws (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/ibmnws/netboot/ramdisk/Makefile#24)
>   macppc (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/macppc/floppies/ramdisk/Makefile#25)
>   rs6000 (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/rs6000/ramdisk/Makefile#27)
>   x68k (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/x68k/floppies/ramdisk/Makefile#27)
> 
> I will fix it for sparc64 now.

Thank you.

Why isn't "arc" listed above?

Why isn't "cats" listed above?

Why isn't "zaurus" listed above?

Also why doesn't "arc" have LISTS+=           
${DISTRIBDIR}/common/list.inet6 ? (Or maybe I overlooked it?)
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