"Greg A. Woods" <wo...@planix.ca> writes: > So I've got a couple of old but important machines (Xen amd64 domUs) > running NetBSD-5, and I've finally decided that I'm reasonably well > enough prepared to try upgrading them. > > However it seems a "modern" (9.99.81, -current from about 2021-03-10) > kernel with COMPAT_40 isn't able to run some of the userland on those > systems. > > Is this something that should work? > > If it should I think it would make the upgrade much easier as I could > then plop down the new userland and run etcupdate. (there are of course > alternative ways to do the upgrade, eased by the fact they are domUs (*)) > > The most immediate problems I noticed are with networking. ifconfig -a > returns without printing anything, and trying to enable IPF crashes:
When I took a system from 4.0 to 7.x some time ago, the only thing that I had problems with was anything that used scheduler activations since that had been removed. For me this only effected stuff from pkgsrc, as I also rolled in new userland at the same time. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
