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Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE trouble after ugrade 6.2-RELEASE -> 6.3-RELEASE
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gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr wrote:
> Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>:
> 
>> Yes, there is no possibility of ULE 2.0 being merged to 6.x.  Use it in
>> 6.x if you dare, just don't complain to us if it breaks your system :-)
> 
> All right, I won't :-)
> 
>> i.e. if at any point you start experiencing problems, do not report them
>> until you have verified that they persist with 4BSD also.
> 
> I can hear you.
> Then again, I'm in the slow process of converting people in my office to use
> FreeBSD instead of GNU/Linux: it's not going to be easy if 6.3 4BSD exhibits
> slownesses when compiling a kernel, and 6.3 ULE might prove not that stable :-\
> (I've not encountered any problem until now, though, and I'm "touching wood" as
> my granny says)
> 
> By the way, why still include ULE in 6.x if it is to be avoided ?

Typically we don't remove even experimental (even broken) code in stable 
branches in case it is still useful to someone despite the problems.

Try 7.0 instead.

Kris