From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 28 14:10:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C6A37B403 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6SLAHI18056; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:10:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Removing support for TurboChannel machines from -current In-Reply-To: <3B6327DC.282CED87@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > remove TC support. > > > > > > By all means. Let's run on less hardware. > > > > No, no, no. Let's limit our support to that which we're likely to have. > > Or... Let's limit what we're likely to have to what we support. > > > > Or, another way to put it- if *you* have TC units and want to support them, > > far out! Please do! > > Let's not chase away someone who might take you up on your > offer in the future by deleting the existing code today. > > What does diking out the code buy you, apart from less code > in a checked out source tree, a bigger Attic, and a large > CVSsup/CTM delta for everyone to have to swallow? A clearer statement of what we can support. In some sense this is a silly discussion. The entire platform is now legacy. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message