From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 02:16:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1841016A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 02:16:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA73C43D49 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 02:16:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id 904131A3C23; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:16:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:16:50 +0100 From: Maxime Henrion To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20060204021650.GF55746@elvis.mu.org> References: <43E3B35B.90409@unixfreak.org> <1138996676.26027.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Miles Nordin , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:16:51 -0000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:59 PM -0500 2/3/06, Miles Nordin wrote: > > >>>>> "rs" == Robert Slade writes: > > > > rs> FreeBsd 6.0 works fine on my U10, > > > >except that by ``fine'' you mean Firefox/Mozilla and anything > >else that makes heavy use of POSIX threads doesn't work. Does > >gdb work again? gprof? CVSup? Java won't work, of course. > > CVSup works. It doesn't work on PowerPC, but it does on sparc64. > And there seems to be a lot of progress on 'csup' lately (that's > the rewrite of cvsup in C). Yep, and I encourage anybody to give it a try. I'm busy rolling a new snapshot now, with many fixes and stuff. As far as I can tell and from what I've been told by numerous people now, csup works like a charm. It has gained status file support recently so the speed problem is fixed, and changing the zlib compression level even made it slightly faster than CVSup in my (somewhat limited) testing. I'd say that the most annoying problem at the moment is that csup doesn't support fixups. That means that if updating a file failed for some reason (and that could happen with corrupted files when using -s), csup will just stupidly complain about the bad checksum and stop (or actually, hang, but that's unrelated :D). It's not a big deal since in that case you can just re-run csup and it'll checkout the file. Now of course, a few other things are still missing: CVS mode, refuse files, a bunch of minor options and stuff, etc. Maybe I'll have time to tackle those, but that's not sure; the reason I've been working quite a lot on csup these days is because I'm jobless, and that can't last forever, unless people are willing to send me money to finish csup :-). This mail ended up being longer than I expected, but I just thought I'd take advantage of this thread to let people know how far exactly I am with this project now (and to do some advertising :-P). Cheers, Maxime