Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:37:32 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp Message-ID: <20000621173732.A56214@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <200006201954.MAA88510@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 12:54:06PM -0700 References: <55142.961529404@critter.freebsd.dk> <200006201936.NAA71564@harmony.village.org> <200006201954.MAA88510@apollo.backplane.com>
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In <200006201954.MAA88510@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The kernel will always be buildable. It should be stable enough to > last for 5 minutes. But there are going to be a lot of legacy issues > that need to be fixed -- drivers that get broken. What will probably > happen is that a base system with only core features enabled (disk, > serial, console, network) will always be more stable during the mergework > then a system with the kitchen sink in. A system with the kitchen > sink in may not even compile! Please give us a list of devices in your development machine. I'm certainly willing to build a similar machine to walk in your footsteps. Another suggestion: It would be very useful is to keep stability on the kernel->userland API for the transition period. That means, if -current becomes unstable from Jul, 1th until the end of August, I'd like to be able to live with an userland from Jun, 30th for all the then-current kernels. Modulo ps/top, which I can rebuild on demand, but - if possible - no problems with essential system-near tools like mount and fsck. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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