Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:49:14 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199803022149.WAA11674@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199803020401.XAA04407@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Mar 1, 98 11:01:51 pm"
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According to John S. Dyson: > Open Systems Networking said: > > On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > > I think that the *biggest* and most complex thing that will be missing > > > will be the fine-grained SMP. It seems that we'll have ELF support, > > > but I forget (or simply don't know) if we (they) decided that ELF will be > > > primary or not. > > > > I was hoping to see SMP (in ANY form), kernel threads, RAID, and > > softupdates, and maybe some TCP stuff, SACK, etc.. > > But RAID, and SMP, and softupdates isn't bad. Can't the current model with SMP be smoothed a bit, to be more of a release material, and we can at least have non-finegrained-locking SMP? I mean, SMP is the big thing for 3.0, and what if there has to be a lot of frobbing done before 3.1 comes out to make it finegrained? It's still nice to have at least the current SMP level available. It DOES help, after all, and even the fact that it doesn't ignore more CPUs completely might attract more people to buy SMP machines, and from there we draw new SMP hackers. IMHO. > I can't imagine having 3.0 ready before the middle of the year. IMO, > and not necessarily that of the rest -core, I think that the "last quarter" > is too long. Probably true. But there seems to be quite a lot in the pipe, and it's also kinda bad to role a release just before we get a lot of new stuff because people will see it as out of date before it's released. One thing I'm thinking about, and haven't seen much about lately is the new SLICE code and DEVFS code. Shouldn't this be pushed into 3.0 before the release cycle? That is, as quickly as possible? It seems it would mean a lot of cleaups, nicer interfaces, and some driver changes. The driver changes needed might be a good thing to get into 3.0. For commecrial interested with drivers, etc. Oh well... I'm rambling as usual. Any comments? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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