Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

On 3/23/26 11:00, Ben Kallus wrote:
> I'm a recent proud owner of a SPARCstation 20 on which I've been
> running NetBSD for the last few days. Both of its old mechanical disks
> are dead, but it works just fine with an internal BlueSCSI v2.
> 
> Do you all think it would be reasonable to include the dse(4) driver
> in the GENERIC kernel to support the DaynaPort network card emulation
> provided by BlueSCSI and the like? I've tested NetBSD 11 RC2 with dse
> enabled on my SPARCstation 20, and it works fine. Some dmesg spam
> ("dse0: should have flushed queue?"), but good enough performance to
> use comfortably.
> 
> For some other platforms on which SCSI emulator boards are popular
> (alpha, mac68k, atari, next68k), the dse(4) driver is in GENERIC
> already.
> 
> I mostly ask because I would like to run -current on my SPARCstation
> and don't particularly want to cross-compile kernels all the time.

   I have to wonder what the point of this would be.  The SS20, like all 
SPARCstations, has an integrated network interface.  What's the use case 
here?

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA