[johnnym]

good question, it was just because I am long time FreeBSD user.

I first used FreeBSD 2.0.5 back in 1995 via Walnut Creek CDROM.

I see, that explains it. I don't remember when I first used any of the BSDs. I believe, I first used GNU/Linux in the form of Slackware or maybe even Knoppix before that sometime around the 2000s or so. My first sort of OS would be CP/M on my dad's Amstrad PCW 256 (aka Schneider Joyce in Germany).

But your question is a good one, as OpenBSD has SGI MIPS support still doesn't it ?

Indeed, they have both little (loongson) and big endian (octeon) MIPS platforms, from which I use octeon userlands for SGI machines and OpenBSD versions where I haven't yet produced sgi userlands (I'm still missing the 7.3 OpenBSD/sgi userland). Thankfully they still use MIPS-III for binaries (also in ports):

Code:

root@nfs:/srv/nfs/openbsd/7.3/octeon/hosts/indigo2/root/bin# file cat
cat: ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, MIPS, MIPS-III version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, for OpenBSD, stripped

...hence everything runs unmodified on SGI hardware originally supported by OpenBSD, though I have to copy over LLVM/clang libs to allow them to work, see the part below "2023-02-06" on for example https://github.com/the-machine-hall/open...bsd.70.sgi for details.

If I get this going, then I imagine it would be pretty easy to put onto other BSDs with MIPS support.

I have now got the http fetching working (with a little bug that I will fix tomorrow), so can move to the patch/build process.

So far changes have been pretty small and bigger deltas are handle via the wrappers.

Keep going!