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Originally Posted by Mr-Biscuit
I wouldn't mind there being a complete compatibility with sparc64 and powerpc between:
openbsd and freebsd
openbsd and netbsd
netbsd and freebsd.
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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.