From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 20 16:13:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BD537B570 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA42826; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:13:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA75680; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:11:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006202311.RAA75680@harmony.village.org> To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:03:10 -0300." References: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:11:37 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message The Hermit Hacker writes: : Which one would be harder to merge back into -current from a branch? Your : NEWCARD work or the SMP work? Why not make a branch for NEWCARD and when : the SMP work is declared stable, *you* spend the effort of merging it back : in? I would do that if the SMP stuff is really bad. I think that Matt's assuances indicate this won't be the case. However, it isn't just NEWCARD. It is every other project that is going on in -current right now. There's work on the usb stack, in the sound system, in the config system, etc. Should all of them run on a branch? No. They shouldn't. If the SMP folks were to have done what was implied in the original message, I think we'd all get together and create a branch for real work. Having said that, I think that the SMP folks now understand the importance of keeping the really bad breakage down to a few days and keeping the base of the system somewhat stable. I don't think a branch will be necessary unless the SMP folks aren't able to do what they say they are going to do. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message