Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:23:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0605160917280.25554@tea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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
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