From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 15 16:59:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A85837B423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA30724; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:23:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:23:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jason Evans Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRE_SMPNG question.... In-Reply-To: <20000915115239.E7247@blitz.canonware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If it's ok with the CVS meisters, I'd like the tag shifted one for sys/alpha/pci/cia.c then- the tree wasn't quite stable at the point it was tagged. There should be other required changes. On 15 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:17:54PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > If I want to make sure that PC164's boot and run in the source tree > > that was tagged PRE_SMPNG, is it acceptable to MFC, as it were, the fix? > > > > I've had to, hah hah (coz I wasn't as careful as I should) spend most of the > > day reinstalling 4.1 so I could get back to having some stable disks I can > > actually boot from prior to moving ahead back into -current for alpha. It > > strikes me that having the PRE_SMPNG stuff be stable would be good. > > > > But I'll admit that I'm a bit hazy as to how branches work vs. tags. > > PRE_SMPNG is a static tag. That means that the only way to modify the > PRE_SMPNG version of a file is to move the tag to a different version of a > file. So, unless the file hasn't changed since the PRE_SMPNG tag was > created, moving the tag will prove very difficult. Indeed, the purpose of > the PRE_SMPNG tag was not to provide a branch point; it was merely meant to > mark the last moment before the SMP code destabilized the tree. > > Jason > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message