Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)

"David Brownlee" <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:59:33 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.atari
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: T. Makinen <[email protected]>

> >        Tuomo, would you be willing to write a few words on what has
> >        been fixed for the NetBSD/atari page? :)
> >
> 
> Yes :) I'll write some information about current NetBSD/Atari situation 
later
> this week.

Great thanks.

> >        All of the other ports call the kernels in binary/kernel
> >        'netbsd-*.gz' so it would be nice to be consistent.
> >        I suppose a cheap way to help it would be to rename them
> >        so they truncate to unique names, say:
> >
> >                BOOTX           -> XBOOT
> >                MILAN-PCIIDE    -> MILAN
> >                MILAN->ISAIDE   -> ISAIDE-MILAN
> >
> >        Not ideal, but a little better.
> 
> Yes, they're truncated just like that, so we need some unique names.

Does anyone have any objections to the renaming given above?

> >        Hmm, does anyone actually have a Milan or Hades to test? :)
> 
> They're quite rare, but who knows, maybe there are some users left
> with them who are interested about NetBSD/Atari :)

Now *thats* a good question for the atari forums! :)