Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

foo bar <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:19:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 11:01=E2=80=AFAM Ben Kallus
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 would offer the counter point that GENERIC is getting a little too
big these days. It's already too big to boot on sun4c machines with
the original memory config most of them shipped with. Having a unified
kernel that boots on everything is nice on paper but on sun4 and sun4c
the lack of RAM makes things painfully slow. I think it might be worth
going back to the SunOS way of having a separate kernel for each
karch.