From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Aug 22 13:57: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 691A737B43E; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:57:06 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: kdulzo@gerp.org Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advancing FreeBSD/sparc Message-ID: <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org>; from Kevin M. Dulzo on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message