Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Hello.
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On Sun, 3/10/19, Maxime Villard <[email protected]> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats
 To: "Bj=C3=B6rn Johannesson" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
 Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
 Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019, 12:16 PM
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 Le 10/03/2019 =C3=A0 11:25, Bj=C3=B6rn Johannesson a =C3=A9crit :
 >> Hello.
 >>
 >> COMPAT_ULTRIX (mips) works fine which I recently discovered after shuff=
ling
 >> some disks and NetBSD8 mounted the ULTRIX disk as /
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 >This more likely means that it was an old UFS disk that we do support by
 >default in our UFS/FFS code, but I hardly seehow this could be related to=
 COMPAT_ULTRIX.
What I meant was that it mounted the ULTRIX root disk and proceeded to run =
init going into multiuser
with NetBSD kernel and ULTRIX userland.
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 >Which MIPS are you talking about by the way?
 >Pmax I guess? Because COMPAT_ULTRIX is disabled on the majority of our MI=
PSs.
Yes (DECstation 5000/240)

 >> Not that I have terribly much use for it (except maybe maple) but I wou=
ld
 >> still like it to be kept in.
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 >I would tend to think that a good reason needs
 >to go a bit farther than just
 >"I'd like to keep it in"...
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 >When it comes to Maple, it is already available on Linux, and we do have
 >COMPAT_LINUX.
 Perhaps, but I do not have maple on Linux, only for ULTRIX/mips.

/B