From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 23:15:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125A016A474; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from ford.blinkenlights.nl (ford.blinkenlights.nl [213.204.211.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6444843D46; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from tea.blinkenlights.nl (tea.blinkenlights.nl [192.168.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ford.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE88DBECD; Wed, 17 May 2006 01:15:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id 32542276; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E9121B; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:23:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten Spans To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:16 -0000 On Thu, 11 May 2006, John Baldwin wrote: > Alpha was the first non-x86 port that was added to FreeBSD, and as such it has > greatly aided the efforts to keep FreeBSD from being too i386-centric. > However, recently the Alpha port has not had any active development or > maintenance. As a result, the quality of the Alpha releases that the Project > provides are not on par with other supported architectures and is in fact > degrading. Unfortunately, as an architecture it has also been killed by its > creator. > > After considering all of this, it is time to part with Alpha for 7.0 and > beyond. At this time it is still planned to provide 6.x releases for > FreeBSD/alpha. The code will still be around in CVS history if someone > suddenly shows up and fixes a bunch of bugs and/or the architecture is > revived. Users with Alpha systems are welcome to use existing releases of > FreeBSD/alpha or another BSD such as NetBSD/alpha. We would still like to > see bug fixes for FreeBSD/alpha on 6.x so that the final release is solid. A backport of the if_em jumboframe changes would be nice for the last few alpha people with gigabit, although I'll probably will be able to backport it myself. /me wanders off, still looking for that elusive alphaserver ds15 :) -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem