Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:56:15 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SF Bay area hackfest Message-ID: <p06020471bc87dc86ec54@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241221540.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241221540.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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At 12:22 PM -0800 3/24/04, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David O'Brien wrote: >> > > Uh, what about basic functionalty on Sparc64 and Alpha? > >who cares? Given how many hours I just spent to provide a "somewhat painless" upgrade path on for a major change to sparc64, it would be correct to assume that I care about that platform. That doesn't mean I'm going to do all the sparc-related work for every project someone wants to implement on i386, but it does mean I want the platform to be taken seriously. It is going to be a major challenge to the FreeBSD project to have multiple "tier 1" platforms, and it isn't good to hear a cavalier "Who Cares?" so early in handling that challenge. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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