From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 12 23:25:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08584 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08577 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA18397; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:24:04 -0800 (PST) To: Ron Bolin cc: FreeBSD Current Mailing List Subject: Re: i386 and Alpha Src Tree Question In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:01:08 EST." <35088554.ED785058@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:24:04 -0800 Message-ID: <18394.889773844@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Since I have only Intel class machines like many others. Does it > make sense to organize the tree where cvsups and the general make file > sequence does not download or depend on the Alpha code being in the > tree? Probably not, no. It's not something that's entirely confined to a single hierarchy (support is and must be intertwined at many different levels of the source tree). > It seems like we are going to have lots of space taken up by the Alpha > code. Bite the bullet. The OpenBSD and NetBSD folks have been bearing this cost for ages, and you should count yourself lucky that you don't also have to deal with m68k or PPC or VAX code, for example, in your tree. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message