Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:57:57 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
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> On Mar 10, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
>> 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 see how this could be =
related to
>> COMPAT_ULTRIX.
>=20
> No, I'm sure he actually means an old Ultrix disk.  Doing that sort of =
thing was quite common back in the early NetBSD days.  NetBSD/pmax =
supports the DECstation disk label format because that's what the boot =
ROM understands, and the NetBSD can read/write the Ultrix UFS because =
it's vanilla 4.3BSD.

...to clarify "mounting root on an old Ultrix disk".

-- thorpej