From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 12:35:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4B316A4CF; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:35:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1808B43D46; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20040324203500012000m6tte>; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:35:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA64836; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:38:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <4061EF43.4040707@freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD current users cc: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: SF Bay area hackfest X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:35:02 -0000 On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > who cares? > > That's the wrong answer. yes I know. It's just that we decided at the dev summit that we were dropping alpha as a tier one platform and everyone seems to have forgotten that. Sparc support is planned but we've had very little input from Sparc developers (are there any?) > There is a formal statement from the project > that sparc64 is a tier-1 platform and also the reference platform for 64 > bit support. The definition of tier-1 is that new functionality is > added to all tier-1 platforms. This is no exception. I'm not going to > re-open the tier discussion right now, though we indeed need to review > it in the next month or two. For rgiht now, plan on supporting all > tier-1 platforms. You don't need to necessarily write all the code > yourself for these, but you have to be prepared to take them into > consideration and take responsibility for getting the code written > by someone. > > Scott > > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:01:11PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >> > >>>Let's get basic functionality woring on x86 and amd64 before we start > >>>diverging into optimization strategies. > >> > >>Uh, what about basic functionalty on Sparc64 and Alpha? > >> > >>-- > >>-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >> > > > > > > > >