From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 08:07:09 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 2064916A400; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670D243D4C; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:07:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4H873pS081113; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k4H8722k051771; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k4H8723K051770; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:02 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Sten Spans Message-ID: <20060517080702.GA51740@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:07:09 -0000 On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0200, Sten Spans wrote.. > 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. I'm more than happy to stick patches into RELENG_6. I don't think my GbE switch understands jumbo packets, but I do have em(4) cards in my Alpha as you know :) > /me wanders off, still looking for that elusive alphaserver ds15 :) Same here :-/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org