Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: SF Bay area hackfest Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241235290.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4061EF43.4040707@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > who cares? > > That's the wrong answer. yes I know. It's just that we decided at the dev summit that we were dropping alpha as a tier one platform and everyone seems to have forgotten that. Sparc support is planned but we've had very little input from Sparc developers (are there any?) > There is a formal statement from the project > that sparc64 is a tier-1 platform and also the reference platform for 64 > bit support. The definition of tier-1 is that new functionality is > added to all tier-1 platforms. This is no exception. I'm not going to > re-open the tier discussion right now, though we indeed need to review > it in the next month or two. For rgiht now, plan on supporting all > tier-1 platforms. You don't need to necessarily write all the code > yourself for these, but you have to be prepared to take them into > consideration and take responsibility for getting the code written > by someone. > > Scott > > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:01:11PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >> > >>>Let's get basic functionality woring on x86 and amd64 before we start > >>>diverging into optimization strategies. > >> > >>Uh, what about basic functionalty on Sparc64 and Alpha? > >> > >>-- > >>-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >> > > > > > > > >
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