Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:50:25 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Mar 16, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Maxime Villard <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> Yes. Most of these functions are basic wrappers, that I think we can =
just
> gather into a linux_misc.c or similar.

Yes, that's the right thing to do, but note it's alpha-specific, and not =
shared with other platforms' COMPAT_LINUX.

> Do we know if COMPAT_OSF1 has actually ever been supported on HPPA? It =
is
> commented out in GENERIC since rev1, and there is some Alpha-specific =
code
> in osf1_misc.c that could hardly have compiled on HPPA.

Certainly not in NetBSD, as far as I'm aware.  It certainly existed for =
PA-RISC, but was never shipped by the vendor.  The OSF/1 compat we have =
in NetBSD is specifically DEC's flavor for the Alpha, and I don't recall =
exactly how far it diverged.

-- thorpej