> On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Simon Burge <sim...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
>> ... whether or not disc
>> brakes are appropriate for road racing bicycles.
> 
> Having recently converted, the answer is "yes".  No debate needed :)

I guess I'm just a luddite, but I do have disc brakes on my tandem :-)

ANYWAY...

I've made a bunch of progress on this, so far converting every architecture 
except for ia64 at this point ... I may punt on that and let someone else worry 
about fixing it up (i.e. I'll add stubs that just error out) .. I refreshed the 
toolchains on my builder overnight, and am going to build test kernels for most 
of the platforms we support.  I'll test what I have hardware for, and what I 
can quickly set up simulators for, but I'm going to need help from others to 
get this all tested.

Things that I can easily test directly:

        -- amd64 (using a VMware VM)
        -- i386 (using a VMware VM)
        -- aarch64 (using a Pinebook)
        -- arm (using an ARMv6 Raspberry Pi) -- will exercise the ARMv4 and 
pre-ARMv4 code paths in this case.

I'm going to spend some time over the next few evenings getting Qemu emulators 
up and running for smattering of systems (although I have been having trouble 
getting Qemu guest networking working on a macOS host).  What I plan to test 
under Qemu:

        -- mips (32-bit, at least)
        -- powerpc
        -- sparc
        -- sparc64

...and if I get around to setting up SIMH, I will test vax myself, as well.

I'll need help with everything else... ping me off list if you can help!

Happily, I have an ATF unit test that exercises all of new functions, so anyone 
willing to volunteer to help me test it will have an easy time of it.

-- thorpej

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