From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 30 9:13:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07F837B439; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g0UHDDR69535; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:13:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert , Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest binutils import breaks Alpha cross compiles Message-ID: <20020130091313.C69440@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C576050.560CB337@mindspring.com> <20020130162039.D14D63A9A@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020130162039.D14D63A9A@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:20:39AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:20:39AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > That's easy to say when signing up somebody else to do the work. > > Seriously though, in spite of pretending otherwise, i386 *is* our reference > platform, and the "other" platforms require people with the hardware and > interest to keep it "alive". ... > If there isn't enough critical mass to keep it going, then it is dead > by definition. This is my current feeling -- that Alpha 5-CURRENT no long has any critical mass. Thus it isn't worth the time or trouble. My interests have moved over to sparc64 and x86-64 where I believe there will be a much larger following. It is shame after I've spent several thousand $$ on Alpha hardware over the past three years. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message