From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 02:44:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DC61065672; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swarron@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5945D8FC14; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so325675bwz.13 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=zkj3SvjWEFdArhdrgpIUF+ef/MXeUsMg3JJJ0eeH0UY=; b=Ru/Nk4WMMBKuui3Kt6qNIBtzT5zsj96OF1492lrUFv8+dnB3p1HrTAsqd2yoiqZDVw acIZf9OJjTIKyXku4wCaGmENVXAeYNAIqdwf2664WA43385NnB9uPgjJs4ysEARuxAlE j9X+NG/zYWrulB8DGPYjIdUeX76QD6qhSI8/8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=tHNgMTIk0A25icn0VvTvBmVgvgnPSrLHc1CdqKAw8h27SGKCwVvESknzJkfTmBWtEH Re75wHMDHPZCc8/xqHZJP2qY8NZCGOkeauDjm9YRrBF+yaeYb3OWHY41sttbHQr/kWwS gSmkH4z/jrutnTPbNDaWliX631cMhdffwI6Zk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.69.200 with SMTP id a8mr5451193bkj.36.1282704293113; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.34.211 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:44:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100824.095934.469056195874343280.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:44:53 +0800 Message-ID: From: "S.W Arron" To: "Jayachandran C." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: gonzo@freebsd.org, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has the mips branch code been merged into the head main-line? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:44:57 -0000 Get it. Thanks for the confirmation. From the experience, head seems much stable than the old branch. There is some kernel crash in the old mips branch when tested in gxemul while gone in the head. On 8/25/10, Jayachandran C. wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:29 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> In message: >> "S.W Arron" writes: >> : Hi, Oleksandr >> : >> : It seems that the mips branch is removed from the base/projects/mips in >> the >> : svn repository, and i can't "svn update" to update the mips code. But >> "svn >> : diff" is still ok, very strange. It is appreciated if some help can be >> : provided. >> : >> : Since 8.0 there is mips directory in sys/, not sure the mips branch code >> has >> : already been merged into the mainline. Can you help confirm it or give >> some >> : instruction where to get the latest version for freebsd-mips? Thanks a >> lot! >> >> The mips code has been merged to the mainline. projects/mips has been >> svn deleted since we've collapsed it all into head. Juli Mallet does >> have a Cavium Octeon branch, but I believe almost all the changes (and >> all the important ones) have been merged. FreeBSD 8.x has some mips >> code, but the mips code in -current is much better. There's talk >> about merging it back to 8, but that's a lot of work that nobody has >> had time to do so far. > > Is there any writeup on how this is done - if it is just a matter of > svn merge and fixing up may be I can have a go at this. > > JC. >