From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 17:13:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048BB37B422; Sun, 27 May 2001 17:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4S0DAE58169; Sun, 27 May 2001 18:13:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200105280013.f4S0DAE58169@harmony.village.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken loader? Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , core@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 May 2001 17:08:10 PDT." <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org> <20010526145104.C11876@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:13:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org> "David O'Brien" writes: : I want the backing of Core that NO FICL upgrades or major .4th changes : can be committed until they have been tested (compiled and booted) on all : platforms. I really don't think I would be allowed to upgrade the : toolchain if it had only been tested on Alpha and x86. I fail to see why : something as important and fundamental as the loader (and harder to : replace if you FUBAR it and loader.old) should be any different. Recall that there are three supported platforms. pc98's boot sequence is enough different than the IBM AT's that i386 port uses that it too should be tested as well. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message