[TUHS] Re: Latest 2.9BSD and 2.11BSD

[Aaron Jackson via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

Warren Toomey <wkt@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.

Cheers,
Aaron


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