On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:25:09 +0000 m...@netbsd.org wrote: > As for sun4v, I believe Palle is doing work on this sometimes.
Yes, I've seen from the posts on sparc64 mailing list that some people are working on it, but often developers have other commitments and bills to pay, so the progress can be very slow. Paying those developers to work part or full time on various features would 1) help them pay the bills, and 2) move features forward quicker. I suspect NetBSD users would be more willing to sponsor the features that they can directly benefit from. In fact, this mode of software development (pay per feature) should be encouraged. I appreciate that NetBSD is a non-profit organization, but relying on other people to donate their development time for free is not always the best approach, i.e. feature development can drag on indefinitely.
