From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 12 9:56:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F4937B404; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0572.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.200.62] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17IBQ4-0000Pj-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:56:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3D077D18.B044A1E9@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:55:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove xten from the base system? References: <20020612041902.9CF1137B408@hub.freebsd.org> <20020612123518.GC34267@madman.nectar.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > This commit reminds me ... why are we still carrying the xten stuff > around? I thought there might have been a thread on this in the > relatively recent past, but a quick search of -arch and -hackers didn't > turn anything up. > > It appears to me that this code hasn't really been maintained since > 1997 [1]. Moreoever, it isn't really the kind of software that one > expects to be tied into the base system. Perhaps it works? > Comments on its removal? Assuming anyone is actually interested in > the code, it can be moved to the Ports Collection. While we are at it, let's move all device drivers to "ports". NOT. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message