From owner-cvs-src Mon Feb 17 19: 3:24 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F5837B401; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D25B43F85; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1I32xfI044357; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:03:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:03:15 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: "Sam Leffler" Cc: julian@elischer.org, jake@locore.ca, scott_long@btc.adaptec.com, julian@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha exception.s genassym.c Message-Id: <20030217220315.77108796.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <023701c2d6f0$543e4f60$52557f42@errno.com> References: <023701c2d6f0$543e4f60$52557f42@errno.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:51:59 -0800 "Sam Leffler" wrote: > > As a sidebar, in my opinion sparc is irrelevant except as a porting > > exercize to keep the code clean. I think it is damaging to the > > project to have it a tier 1 architecture. In case no-one has noticed > > the sparc comes with a unix OS already, so the market is miniscule. > > techncally nice, but basically irrelevant to the success of the > > project except as a roadblock to progress. Anyhow that's just my > > opinion. Others are free to disagree (and obviously do). (Nothing > > personal, just my opinion on where we should be placing sparc stuff > > in he overall priority list.) > > You are wrong. sparc development is driving several aspects of the > system in very productive ways. In fact I'm planning to request a > sparc machine soon as soon as I have space to set it up. > > Sam > > Some of us would like to have the ability of FreeBSD on Sun equipment. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message