Hello. -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 3/10/19, Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote: Subject: Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats To: "Björn Johannesson" <rherdware%yahoo.com@localhost>, tech-kern%netbsd.org@localhost Cc: port-pmax%netbsd.org@localhost, port-alpha%netbsd.org@localhost Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019, 12:16 PM Le 10/03/2019 à 11:25, Björn Johannesson a écrit : >> Hello. >> >> COMPAT_ULTRIX (mips) works fine which I recently discovered after shuffling >> some disks and NetBSD8 mounted the ULTRIX disk as / >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 seehow this could be related to COMPAT_ULTRIX. What I meant was that it mounted the ULTRIX root disk and proceeded to run init going into multiuser with NetBSD kernel and ULTRIX userland. >Which MIPS are you talking about by the way? >Pmax I guess? Because COMPAT_ULTRIX is disabled on the majority of our MIPSs. Yes (DECstation 5000/240) >> Not that I have terribly much use for it (except maybe maple) but I would >> still like it to be kept in. >I would tend to think that a good reason needs >to go a bit farther than just >"I'd like to keep it in"... >When it comes to Maple, it is already available on Linux, and we do have >COMPAT_LINUX. Perhaps, but I do not have maple on Linux, only for ULTRIX/mips. /B