[TUHS] Latest 2.9BSD and 2.11BSD

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 11:23 AM Aaron Jackson <aaron at aaronsplace.co.uk> wrote:

> >  Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> writes:
> >
> >  >>    I see we have 2.11BSD patch 469 dated last month in the archive.
> Where
> >  >>    does it come from? Has anybody climbed the hill to import all the
> >  >>    patches into a git repo?
> >  >
> >  > I know somebody tried a while back and reported here. They found it
> wasn't
> >  > possible to apply all the patches sequentially. I'd have to go look in
> >  > the mail archive for details.
> >  >
> >  > Maybe it's time for someone else to have a go!
> >  >
> >  > Cheers, Warren
> >
> >  Stumbled upon this email thread while searching my inbox for some patch
> >  info. I've managed to setup an automated pipeline for applying all
> >  patches sequentially, producing a new disk image after each one. This
> >  has been built as a GitHub workflow, and the images are then pushed up
> >  to an S3 bucket for others to use.
> >
> >  https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD-Action
> >
> >  At the very least, it is confirmation and verification that the released
> >  patches can be applied sequentially, and each one leaves the system in a
> >  bootable state, if applied correctly.
> >
> >  I've also been applying the patches to a fork of the source tree on
> >  GitHub which Warner Losh created (maybe after this email thread). I've
> >  been doing this in the patch-apply2023 branch but it's a bit of a mess
> >  at the moment and doesn't build. The repo also includes an IBV11 card
> >  driver which I wrote with the help of Toby Thain. I'm not sure whether
> >  Steven would welcome patches for new features, rather than bug fixes,
> >  but I'd be happy to generate a patch file if others wanted to control
> >  their "modern" test gear from their PDP11.
> >
> >  https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD
> >
> >  At some point I'm planning to automate the process of generating the
> >  installation tapes for each patch level. Not got round to this though,
> >  yet - although it's Easter weekend, so I might have a play.
>
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>
> > Any chance you could extend this to my work to recreate the 2.11 as
> > released tapes? There are extra challenges in the first 200 patches,
> > including missing patches...
> >
> > Warner
>
> If you are talking about this:
> https://github.com/bsdimp/mk211bsd
>
> I'll take a look and see - that does sound like a mess to sort out
> though :D
>


Yes. It's why I've not done it yet. Going backwards was hard enough :) I'd
love to help, but don't have the time to drive it.

Warner

> cheers,
> Aaron
>
>
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