Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:40:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <20060513084045.GA62410@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <446403FE.8050908@freebsd.org> References: <200605120254.k4C2s3BS052028@repoman.freebsd.org> <4464020F.3000609@freebsd.org> <446403FE.8050908@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:41:50AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote.. > Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >If memory serves me right, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >>andre 2006-05-12 02:54:03 UTC > >> > >> FreeBSD doc repository (src committer) > >> > >> Modified files: > >> en index.xsl > >> Log: > >> Alpha has left the building. Add ARM and rearrange the list of > >> architectures > >> a bit. > > > >I wonder if the !alpha part was a little premature? Yes, the alpha > >kernel bits are gone from HEAD, but they're still around on RELENG_5 and > >RELENG_6, and we're still planning to do releases from both of those > >codelines. The first release that won't include alpha will be 7.0, and > >its release cycle doesn't even *start* for over a year. > > > >Just a thought... > > There are like two remaining Alpha users and we most likely won't gain > any new ones in the foreseeable future. Though we are compiling releases > according to jhb it isn't even clear they actually work on Alpha. It's Please get your facts straight. There are some problems (like ata(4) on most (all??) alpha models. But for most machine types 5.x and 6.x just work > not actively maintained anymore. It really has left the building and there > is no point in advertising it on our homepage instead of on some random > tombstone somewhere out in the past architectures graveyard. > > -- > Andre --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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