Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 16:09:38 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <1211746178.1510.56.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20080525195955.GB5179@what-creek.com> References: <200805250248.m4P2mv8U026913@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080525180014.S63463@fledge.watson.org> <20080525195955.GB5179@what-creek.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 19:59 +0000, John Birrell wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > Is there something in your recent work that prevents sun4v from compiling > > and hence justifies disabling it entirely, and hence guaranteeing it won't > > compile in the future because it falls off the "make it compile" radar? If > > so, then a policy decision to drop sun4v support may be called for -- but > > this is something to discuss with the people who added support for the > > architecture, the release engineering team, etc, and not to make > > unilaterally. > > When I added sun4v to universe back in 2006, I had hopes that it would > live up to it's early promise. Adding it back then was premature. I guess > you could say I made a unilateral decision back then. :-D > > The last time I checked, the sun4v port wouldn't even boot on my T2000, > so I have to ask if there is anyone who even knows that. Or cares. > Just keeping the code compiling is not good enough. It has to actually > work. > > I haven't removed any support for building sun4v. I just think that the > few people who do build universe shouldn't have to wait for a dead > port to build. > > > -- > John Birrell > FWIW, to anybody with time+interest, you can get these things on-loan for free from Sun Microsystems as part of their try-and-buy program. So, if anybody wants to turn the sun4v into a pet project, Sun has greased the wheels a bit for you already. The specs on these systems look impressive, I just didn't have the time to mess with it when I tried. I still get pings every few months from a Sun rep... -- Coleman Kane [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkg5x4AACgkQcMSxQcXat5fGdQCeMCT500js/kpd+C1BFYB6ghlr D8cAmwU9Sy2LBELSlCie7+6jWTqhafIX =3fXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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