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From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ext2fs support for NetBSD 1.2
Date: 9 Nov 1996 04:36:25 GMT
Organization: George's NetBSD answer man
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References: <55sptk$qsh@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <SOUVA.96Nov8160341@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de>
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In article <SOUVA.96Nov8160341@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de>,
Ignatios Souvatzis <isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de> wrote:

>   I've put for ftp a set of patchs to add support of ext2fs to
>   NetBSD/i386 1.2.
>
>
>why /i386? Why isn't it MI?

Last time I checked, ext2fs code used some i386 asm for some stuff...

That would probably be easy to fix :-)