From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 22:51:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF3D16A400 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAFC13C48E for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JEL00MT9U0XB240@l-daemon> for freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:50:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JEL00JY3U0W8GC1@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:50:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JEL00BBZU0W7TK0@l-daemon> for freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:50:56 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 4695 invoked from network); Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:50:31 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:50:31 +0000 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:50:30 -0800 From: Colin Percival To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <45F08526.1060809@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) Cc: Subject: FreeBSD Update for sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:51:11 -0000 Hello sparc64ers, The FreeBSD Security Team has access to some sparc64 hardware and we're debating using this to make FreeBSD Update work on the sparc64 platform. Unfortunately the words "fast" and "sparc64" don't seem to go together very well, so FreeBSD Update builds take rather longer on sparc64 than they do on i386 or amd64. In many cases, we will not want to delay sending out a security advisory in order to wait for sparc64 builds to complete. Would you find it useful to have FreeBSD Update working for sparc64 if you often had to wait 24 hours or more after a security advisory went out before FreeBSD Update could fetch patches for you? Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer