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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:57:06 -0700
From:      David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        kdulzo@gerp.org
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advancing FreeBSD/sparc
Message-ID:  <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org>; from Kevin M. Dulzo on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500
References:  <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org>

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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500, Kevin M. Dulzo wrote:
> I see no reason to exclude older machines from a port of FreeBSD as
> many of these lunch/pizza boxes can be had rather cheaply and are quite
> effective at accomplishing tasks.

Some disagree about this.

>  I plan to work heavily on the 4c and 4m initially as a 4u machine is
>  quite out of my reach.

I have offered a few U1/170's loaners (IFF you are actually going to do
something to move the FreeBSD/sparc64 port forward).
 
> 	Another issue had to deal with tracking changes/committing and
> which branch(es) should be used.  I have no idea on this one, current
> would make the most sense, a majority of my familiarity is in the stable
> branch.

If you want any work done to be folded back into the offical FreeBSD code
repository, the work *MUST* be done on -CURRENT.  Trying to merge any
RELENG_4 kernel work back into -CURRENT would be very painful.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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