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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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu