From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 15:56: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A422537B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB0443F93; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RNtw1o063703; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RNtwal001635; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1RNtwe4001634; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: John Baldwin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <20030227235558.GA1596@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just accidentally > >broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing. > >People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer > >either. I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for > >rather long periods of time before being noticed as well. > > Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release > process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel? It's never good to add to your release cycle something you don't build/validate during development. Releases are painful enough that you don't want to turn them into testbeds. If it's not worth testing during development, it's not worth releasing... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message