From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 15:35:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE3E37B404; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914EE43F85; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6LMZ9wO008820; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@ns1.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6LMZ98F008819; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:35:09 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030721223509.GA8170@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Bernd Walter cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA [Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.alpha src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC NOTES] X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:35:14 -0000 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:04:19AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > without CDs or bandwidth. We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64, > > and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64. I think it's > > time to cut them out of Alpha. > > Absolutely. But everytime we planned on doing that there was uproar. Alpha is in need of people who actually do some work. If dropping boot floppies makes the maintenance burden lighter than we should do it, even if there's a downside. So, unless people talk with patches, I think we should ignore the uproar and just do it. It's hard enough to get people to port libthr or libkse and that's much more important... Just my $0.02 -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net