On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > jo...@britannica.bec.de (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes: > >>On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote: >>> Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on, >>> however, is really asking for something quite different. Since you >>> can't make more than small, mechanical changes to anything and expect >>> it to work without testing (and I'm not even sure about the small, >>> mechanical changes) what is being asked instead is that nothing be >>> done that requires changes to the ARCNET code on the disk right >>> now, nor the framework it relies on to operate, while making it >>> someone else's problem to figure out how to deal with that constraint. >>> This isn't fair, and I don't think it has any possibility of working. > >>Amen. > > There are several NetBSD developers that own ARCNET hardware and > that could help out. You could also get new cards, at "industry" prices. >
Okay, I have wanted to hear that. It would be helpful that someone try ARCNET occasionally whether it still works and alarm if we break something. Thanks, ozaki-r