Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:03:31 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <419BD8C3.4010308@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200411171724.10708.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041109225940.GA12940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20041110050258.44554.qmail@web53105.mail.yahoo.com> <20041117151848.B780@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200411171724.10708.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:18 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >>Matthew Jacob [mjacob44@yahoo.com] wrote: >> >>>My opinion, FWIW, is to put Alpha in the class of machines that is >>>supported by NetBSD, i.e., the hobby architectures. >> >>I agree. Its sad, but I think we should remove alpha from HEAD. >>The main reason for holding on through the 5.x changes was to get >>alpha SMP support in a released version of FreeBSD. We have that now, >>in 5.x > > > I won't stand against it, but I do actually do testing on the DS20 I have > here. Unfortunately my jhb_preemption branch with a kernel with 4BSD + > PREEMPTION locked up during a buildworld loop last night. *sigh* > I won't stand against it either. It's something that we will consider at the RELENG_6 branchpoint. Either it stays in and we guarantee that it continues to compile for the life of 6.x (note that I say _compile_, not _work_), or it gets removed for RELENG_6 and stays in HEAD (like PPC for RELENG_5), or it gets removed from HEAD before the branch point. Scott
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