Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:46:50 -0500 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me> Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOsmeNiffSyx56L8KBH%2BiqU6Y1SentshcToFvPO23Vx%2Bdg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151117092703.GA30582@lonesome.com> References: <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> <CANCZdfqO-SdjnonGzRr2H0pDon5oALsDGsmG3KOxPGRVdTbHPQ@mail.gmail.com> <39947478-4710-47D8-BAB1-FC93979570B6@mail.turbofuzz.com> <f4d1114833994331bd1fd2273f305abc@XCH-RTP-005.cisco.com> <5646D19C.9010304@interlinked.me> <CANCZdfoH7i9MBxjw1j4Pc3CpiZP=aP5vah2ay38cazkc7%2BreTA@mail.gmail.com> <564A889C.9070209@mu.org> <CANCZdfr2Ce3FAaAwJukcbuTvAN=1DDvEsRQHg6HdZCHamqLd_Q@mail.gmail.com> <564ACCB3.4070603@mu.org> <E3676EF4-60AC-4501-A720-BA9BF923672D@bsdimp.com> <20151117092703.GA30582@lonesome.com>
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Is it possible to have the instruction sets moved from one architecture to another? Would this require more registers? Since there are Open Architectures, it should be possible to create a CPU with shared instruction sets. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:06:35AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > We don=E2=80=99t have a =E2=80=9Cking of the kernel=E2=80=9D or =E2=80= =9Cking of mips=E2=80=9D or anything > > like that. We document that you send mail to mips@ when you don=E2=80= =99t > > know the right person to send. > > And I don't see why we should. What would we gain from this administrati= ve > overhead? > > What we lose is: dealing with people who have the title not doing work, > or people not having the title, doing the work, being irritated by not > having the title. > > svn can, with a little effort, demonstrate who is looking after what. > > All I see is cost and no benefit. This isn't an "org chart" kind of > issue IMHO. > > In FreeBSD, why delegate responsibility to anyone other than those who > take it by their own initiative? > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >
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