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| author | dholland <dholland@NetBSD.org> | 2017-01-18 18:22:13 +0000 |
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| committer | dholland <dholland@NetBSD.org> | 2017-01-18 18:22:13 +0000 |
| commit | aa026eebac5b293f9fbfa664030fe1b429b3b146 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cfd7e75e8f17c7a446e2a01e67e986ad4e17186 /doc/roadmaps | |
| parent | 91a6faf9abbf2a65be62dfa13a85d68d03e29bf0 (diff) | |
Withdraw the 36-bit port item. While there's always interest in it
when the idea comes up on the list, there's also a feeling that
quixotic and/or crazy projects shouldn't be on roadmaps. Which seems
reasonable.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/roadmaps')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/roadmaps/ports | 20 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/doc/roadmaps/ports b/doc/roadmaps/ports index c10c4be15de..e98bdc19724 100644 --- a/doc/roadmaps/ports +++ b/doc/roadmaps/ports @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: ports,v 1.2 2017/01/13 13:40:44 reinoud Exp $ +$NetBSD: ports,v 1.3 2017/01/18 18:22:13 dholland Exp $ NetBSD Ports Roadmap ==================== @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The following elements, projects, and goals are perhaps less pressing; this doesn't mean one shouldn't work on them but the expected payoff is perhaps less than for other things: - 7. pdp10/risc36/odd-bitsize ports + [none presently] Explanations @@ -88,19 +88,3 @@ We have some riscv code and a bit of or1k code, but neither is done. http://cheri-cpu.org There are a number of reasons to tackle this; it will serve as a code quality lever. Also there's already a FreeBSD port to steal from. - - - 7. pdp10/risc36/odd-bitsize ports - -There's been a fair amount of loose talk over the years about doing a -port to a machine that's got 9-bit bytes, or is word-addressed, or -both. The PDP-10 is one such target; it's also been observed that a -more modern architecture would probably be more likely to allow a -vaguely performant FPGA implementation, and something tentatively -called "risc36" was conceived. - -This is both a quixotic retrocomputing project and also a quixotic -code quality project: making the NetBSD code base work on either -word-addressed machines or 9-bit/36-bit machines or both would be good -for it. However, it's also a rather large undertaking. - |
