From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 13 05:16:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21666 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 05:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from why.whine.com (whine-gw.whine.com [205.150.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21658; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 05:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@whine.com) Received: from why (why [205.150.249.1]) by why.whine.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17290; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:16:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:16:03 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Ron Bolin , FreeBSD Current Mailing List Subject: Re: i386 and Alpha Src Tree Question In-Reply-To: <18394.889773844@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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. :-) Yet. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message