Re: Failures on NetBSD/macppc 6.0 for pkgsrc-current

Frank Wille <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:28:28 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Organization	Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V.
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Havard Eidnes wrote:

>> Hmm, apparently http://gnats.netbsd.org/50037 hasn't been pulled up to
>> -6 at all.
>
> It's not pulled up to be part of the 6.1 release, but the significant
> part of it appears to have been pulled up to netbsd-6, [...]

What does the "significant part" mean? Is the FPU-context switching bug
fixed in netbsd-6 or not?

It is fixed in netbsd-7, but 7 introduces some new instabilities for
oea-platforms (ofppc, macppc, sandpoint, etc.) which are even worse, so I
already downgraded some machines (especially servers) to 6 again. Would be
nice to have an official netbsd-6 release with the fix, but without the new
bugs. ;)

-- 
Frank Wille