From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 20 14: 2:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D30C37B422 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (root@kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA52348; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:40:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA02341; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:14:19 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:14:05 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Jason Evans Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development Message-ID: <20000820121405.A2298@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000619115330.D79318@blitz.canonware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000619115330.D79318@blitz.canonware.com>; from jasone@canonware.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:53:30AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > Summary: -current will be destabilized for an extended period (on the order > of months). A tag (not a branch) will be laid down before the initial > checkin, and non-developers should either stick closely to that tag until > the kernel stabilizes, or expect large doses of pain. This tag will be > laid down as soon as June 26, 00:00 PST, with a minimum 24 hour warning > beforehand. Is there any news on this work? Unless I've missed the significance of recent commits, I haven't seen anything approaching this sort of destabilisation in -current. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message