From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 17: 8:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id BCADD37B422; Sun, 27 May 2001 17:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:08:10 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: core@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken loader? Message-ID: <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010526145104.C11876@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > My guess is that the newly imported FICL 2.05 + the forth stuff we use > at boot got too big for the space allocated for the dictionary on the > alpha. This happened to me when using my more comprehensive stuff > instead of the standard stuff on the i386. Reason why I made commit to > remedy this. Daniel this is not the first time you've screwed the Alpha users with loader commits/upgrades. Once was forgivable, twice is frankly quite unforgivable. You have once again _wasted_ a significant amount of your fellow developer's time. I want the backing of Core that NO FICL upgrades or major .4th changes can be committed until they have been tested (compiled and booted) on all platforms. I really don't think I would be allowed to upgrade the toolchain if it had only been tested on Alpha and x86. I fail to see why something as important and fundamental as the loader (and harder to replace if you FUBAR it and loader.old) should be any different. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message