From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 24 21:51:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4E037B60F for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 21:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01280; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 21:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200003250551.VAA01280@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch) In-Reply-To: from Brad Knowles at "Mar 24, 2000 11:38:03 pm" To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 21:51:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn), dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 2:57 PM -0500 2000/3/24, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to > >> just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a > >> designation before 'early alpha' this patch would get it. > > > > "Rough-draft proposal for early alpha version" > > "Theoretical basis for early access to code virtually guaranteed > to mess up your system in highly entertaining ways, although the > complete reinstall and rebuild might be rather annoying" Proof Of Concept (POC) is probably the more accurate term... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message