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No softdeps in NetBSD.

2026-06-15 13:55:10 UTC

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kind of memeing, mips (and riscv) have way too many variants.
evaluation board mips3 running with the n64 abi in bib bendian mode

2026-06-15 13:39:05 UTC

portability(TM) #netbsd #pkgsrc #tigersrc
* alix3d3 (i586) - it finds out what uses SSE2 when it shouldn't
* er4 (evbmips64n64eb) - it finds out when things hardcode a list of supported archs
* mac mini (powerpc; usually runs darwin) - it finds out when things don't specify a c/c++ lang std
* olimex a64 (aarch64) - it finds out when the arm drivers get too piney.
* banana pi (earmv7hfeb) - ugh.
* blade 150 (sparc64, bottom) - it finds out EVERYTHING.
100% not running 24/7.
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2025-11-29 13:20:08 UTC

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also wtf is pulling in alsa-lib as a dependency

2025-11-14 14:08:35 UTC

"This product includes software developed by Microsoft"! (ARM platform code...)
http://bxr.su/FreeBSD/sys/arm/arm/cpufunc_asm_arm11x6.S#15
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/arm/arm32/arm11_pmc.c#14
Eric S. Raymond (linux guy)
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/dev/spkr.c#17 (PC beeper driver)
Intel Corporation
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/ia64/stand/efi/libefi/time.c#19 (some EFI support code)
Garrett D'Amore. (illumos guy)
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/dev/spi/spivar.h#20 (SPI framework)
http://bxr.su/FreeBSD/sys/mips/atheros/ar531x/ar5312reg.h#19 (MIPS device drivers)
I wonder if we can find permission to relicense some of these...

2025-05-13 17:20:00 UTC

This is the first OpenGL EGL application running on NetBSD/sparc64 (using only stuff from the base system). Granted, it's just a demo application that fills the window with a solid colour.
Up til now the sparc64 port only supported classical OpenGL, but EGL is becoming more and more necessary for running modern applications.
Another interesting fact: the entire X session is running in a chroot on a machine that otherwise runs a 10.1 userspace (with a -current kernel).
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2025-05-07 09:50:31 UTC

The latest version of Pale Moon on a 550MHz NetBSD/sparc64 machine. The last portable web browser capable of opening YouTube - slowly, but stable.
#NetBSD #sparc
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2025-04-19 17:44:33 UTC

i've updated my mkimg-netbsd repository, it now has scripts for generating images and running little endian mips (o32, n32, and n64) and alpha versions of #netbsd in #qemu.
this adds to the already-supported powerpc, i386, amd64, armv7, and aarch64.
https://github.com/alarixnia/mkimg-netbsd

2025-03-22 18:59:57 UTC

Experiences with #dreckly / #pkgsrc on obscure Unixes:
#UnixWare - bootstrap succeeded! Just needed a few simple fixes.
#OpenServer - see UnixWare.
#BSDOS - kernel panic during installation. Support incomplete.
#HPUX - kernel panic during installation.
#QNX - bootstrap success! No changes needed.
#Haiku - bootstrap failed due to open() behaviour. "Invalid argument".
If you have a shell on an #IRIX or #HPUX machine, please let me know!