From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 15:57:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162B64D0 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 15:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0642AB2E for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 15:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Alfreds-MacBook-Pro-9.local (c-67-180-208-218.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.208.218]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E27DE1A3C42 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 08:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A38051.8040909@mu.org> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 08:48:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> <51A14445.4060305@freebsd.org> <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F5B337@ltcfiswmsgmb26> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F5B337@ltcfiswmsgmb26> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:57:13 -0000 On 5/25/13 8:45 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > On May 25, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > >> Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is i386 & >> AMD64 only. >> > There's a GSoC project (of which I'm potential mentor) to fix that. > > However, you are entirely right… we can't in all seriousness even think about using pc-sysinstall until it is solid on all architectures as bsdinstall already is. > > GSoC project is: "Making pc-sysinstall FreeBSD ready by porting it to multiple architectures" Why can we not use in the interim use pc-sysinstall on the platforms that it performs best on and use bsdinstall on the others? It doesn't make sense for us to hold up some platform like this at all. Maybe no one has thought of this? Basically use pc-sysinstall on amd64 and i386 and use bsdinstall on the other platforms until they catch up? -Alfred