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Old 6th April 2011
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by Mr-Biscuit View Post
I wouldn't mind there being a complete compatibility with sparc64 and powerpc between:
openbsd and freebsd
openbsd and netbsd
netbsd and freebsd.
With respect to OpenBSD, this is further complicated by the fact that FFS is not the same across all architectures, & the project does not guarantee such compatibility (although there is some compatibility for a limited number of platforms...). As for a couple of issues:
  • consider the byte-ordering expected by the processor.
  • sparc64 expects partitions to begin/end on cylinder boundaries. Most other architectures don't.
One can see from this limited list of factors that this emerging matrix (OpenBSD/sparc64 -- FreeBSD/i386, OpenBSD/i386 -- FreeBSD/sparc64, etc.) becomes unwieldy very fast. And with the OpenBSD project, is there a developer who finds this interesting enough to write, test, & maintain it? Of course, the OpenBSD project is also very open to code submissions, but they also do not hesitate applying the same quality level expectations they expect from themselves.

Last edited by ocicat; 6th April 2011 at 01:37 AM.
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