Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Maxime Villard <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:39:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 10/03/2019 à 13:30, Björn Johannesson a écrit :
>   >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.

Ah, ok, in this case indeed it was likely using COMPAT_ULTRIX all the way.
Without being completely sure if this still justifies keeping COMPAT_ULTRIX,
I guess we can take it out of the list of things to remove for now.

There's been more emphasis on the fact that COMPAT_OSF1 should go. Do people
have anything to say about that?