On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 09:19:23PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:51:42AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > Appreciate your response. I feel confident I can install. More curious > > about what isn't supported yet. Such as multiple processors, altq, and the > > like. > > yeah, SMP is what isn't working. I don't know what makes it eventually > panic, though it does make it to multiuser in -current. > Modules also won't work, you will need everything as a builtin. > > MIPS has* fixed size instructions, so 64bit instructions are very big, > and so it runs a 32bit userland that only runs on 64bit CPUs, kinda like > the amd64 x32 ABI. > > Most architectures don't have as good a reason to do it, so MIPS is the > 'official 32bit compat tester'. Most bugs of missing features were > actually missing 32bit compat. I suspect we forgot to backport some > things. > > I have an ERLITE, but I don't use it as a router, so I can't tell you > how well it does. MIPS is just my favourite architecture. > Other netbsd people do use it as a router though. > > * They now made a variant which isn't like this
I'm currently using OpenBSD on a soekris with no problems. So I doubt I really need SMP for my home network, but I really want to give NPF a solid shot.
