From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 13:45:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 0BA27258; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:45:09 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Dimitry Andric Subject: Re: svn commit: r270099 - in stable: 10/contrib/gcc/config/i386 9/contrib/gcc/config/i386 Message-ID: <20140817134509.GA47327@FreeBSD.org> References: <201408171308.s7HD8Fnh099147@svn.freebsd.org> <20140817131942.GA38672@FreeBSD.org> <8CA269F6-BCD2-4E78-947F-682214367F36@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8CA269F6-BCD2-4E78-947F-682214367F36@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:45:09 -0000 On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > In principle it is applicable, but the same file also has other changes > in head which were not MFCd, so just MFCing this one commit does not > make much sense. For example, the earlier cast fixes were part of a > much larger commit by Pedro Giffuni, adding "experimental support for > amdfam10/barcelona CPUs": > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=251212 I'm running my stable/8 with Pedro's patches applied, including r251212, no problems so far (although I don't have recent AMD CPUs to play with). > Does it still make sense to backport such experimental changes to an old > stable branch? Of course I could split off just the changes to > emmintrin.h, and leave the others out, but then we would have a partial > MFC. I'm not sure if that is the usual way of doing things... Understood. My goal here is to try to keep stable/8 as alive as possible, since I plan to keep using it beyond its official EOL. Hence, when I see fixes that potentially help ports to be buildable on it I'd usually ask if they can be MFCed (when it's easy enough to do). ./danfe