Re: NetBSD/luna88k

Congratulations, this is all excellent news!

I don=E2=80=99t have a Luna but I do have a couple of Data General =
AViiON 88k systems and several bits of Motorola VME 88k hardware.

A few years ago I was slowly migrating the OpenBSD/mvme88k stuff forward =
for my own use, but building on real hardware was quite slow even with =
128MB of RAM. I was still able to take the OpenBSD 5.5 to 5.6 changes =
from other platforms, apply those to the OpenBSD 5.5 mvme88k driver =
codebase, and build OpenBSD 5.6 for mvme88k. In some cursory testing it =
just worked.

I didn=E2=80=99t want to do something more drastic like go from 5.5 to =
6.x because I was concerned about compatibility. Migrating to a new =
major version without intermediate steps could potentially make it much =
more difficult to track down any problems.

So if anyone wants to, OpenBSD/mvme88k could probably be revived =
=E2=80=9Ceasily.=E2=80=9D I can=E2=80=99t share my own work directly =
(thanks to employer=E2=80=99s rules) but I can say that if someone else =
were to try the same thing it should be very straightforward, just a =
matter of looking at diffs, applying changes, and rebuilding everything.

Similarly, once there=E2=80=99s general NetBSD support for m88k, it =
should be pretty easy to bring up NetBSD/mvme88k since a lot (though =
certainly not all) of the driver code will be shared with NetBSD/mvme68k =
=E2=80=94 and since NetBSD shares more code across its codebase then =
OpenBSD does, there should be substantially less need to track down and =
reapply changes in making that work.

  =E2=80=94 Chris