Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 21:03:30 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: John Beukema <jbeukema@HK.Super.NET> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speed increase at CTM src-cur 304? Message-ID: <199502080503.VAA11231@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 95 09:57:11 %2B0800." <Pine.SUN.3.91.950208094928.13560A-100000@is1.hk.super.net>
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>Excuse my ignorance but what is the current relationship between FreeBSD >and BSD4.4 lite? That is, are these improvements, bug fixes to vm etc. a) >also fixes to BSD4.4 lite, b) strictly hardware dependent and therefore >separate, c) co-ordinated with BSD4.4 or d) generating one more new flavor >of BSD? 4.4BSD-lite is the last release of 4.4BSD...or so it was thought. There is a 4.4BSD-lite/2 scheduled for release RSN mostly intended to fix bugs with the union filesystem code and to merge in support for 64bit architectures. The latter is likely going to make it extremely difficult to merge in the improvements contained in that release (we'll have to make FreeBSD "64bit ready", too). Other than FreeBSD being based on 4.4-lite, there is no other relationship between the two. At the time that 4.4-lite was released, there was no plan for any future release of BSD and as such no attempt was made by us to contribute changes back to the (defunct) CSRG. Now that 4.4-lite/2 looks like a reality, I've started sending random patches to Keith Bostic...but to this date this amounts to pitiful amount of stuff and is probably too late for lite/2 anyway. Answering your "d", I would say that we're working on FreeBSD, not 4.4BSD. This has always been the case. Speaking for myself, I don't have any connection with the 4.4BSD development (with the exception of speaking to a few of the principals on rare occasions), and have almost no idea what has happend to that code. I wish things would have been different, but that's just the way things happend. -DG
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