On 2019-05-10, Karel Gardas <gard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 5/9/19 5:00 PM, Janne Johansson wrote: >> Den tors 9 maj 2019 kl 16:49 skrev Andrew Luke Nesbit < >> em...@andrewnesbit.org>: >> >>>> Unless https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html is out of date, it doesn't look >>>> like OpenBSD is currently supporting POWER8 or POWER9 plaftorms. >>> >>> I wonder what is the best way to determine interest in getting OpenBSD >>> to work on POWER8/9? >>> >> >> Look for amount of diffs published in the direction of getting it to work. >> If that is zero or very close to zero, then interest is probably at the >> same level. > > It's not that simple. From application developer even with decades of > experience you do not convert into kernel developer over night. Neither > you will be able to read all the required docs and specs and make a > brain map from them over night. It takes time. Also with all this under > your belt, still the port itself will take another time. So I would be > less sharp with 0 patches == 0 interest judgement.
There are two different things. "interest in getting it to work" can be estimated by, as jj says, diffs, and also by seeing questions come up indicating that someone is looking in that direction. "interest in somebody else getting it to work" is different and pretty much irrelevant to whether it happens. >From what I've seen on mailing lists and other places, there's been at most a handful of the latter, and afaik 0 of the former.
