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From: rvb+@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron)
Subject: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD or NetBSD 0.9
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 17:06:16 GMT
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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?