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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4940 comp.os.386bsd.misc:926 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rvb From: rvb+@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron) Subject: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD or NetBSD 0.9 Message-ID: <CD3JII.F5w.1@cs.cmu.edu> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ernst.mach.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw>, <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 17:06:16 GMT Lines: 22 My best advice is to just wait. I've heard on some other news groups that FreeBSD and NetBSD are going to merge together soon. I'd like to hear that confirmed here. I find it particularly sad that the community has chosen to fragment it self so. Doing a "diff -r" of both /usr/src's I find 1.58Meg of differences. Doing a slightly mor careful look at /usr/src/sys, I find 600K differences. Now a lot of the differences are just RCS headers being different. But there are substantive code differences as well. And there are even trivial annoying differences -- like wether Debugger() takes an argument or not. I'd certainly like a clear mandate as to which code base to work with. For as it turns out, I have an EISA machine with a DPT controller (scsi emulating wd1003); they do a slightly quirky emulation -- they typically raise "done" before they set other bits in a register. So this was working fine with 0.1+0.2.3. I cut over to FreeBSD there and I got as far as trashing my disk, but I can not get FreeBSD to successfully come up. On the other hand, NetBsd does not even see the wd drives, so I lose there too. And sadly, I now have nothing. Well, which kernel do I hack to fix this?