Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:01:08 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A proposal for code removal prior to FreeBSD 13 Message-ID: <4876C5E3-3169-41EC-9A79-7613F92A9C6D@yahoo.com>
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Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on Sun Dec 16 16:32:35 UTC 2018 : > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:27 AM George Neville-Neil <gnn at = neville-neil.com> > wrote: >=20 > > Howdy, > > > > A few of us are working on a list of programs and other code that = we'd > > like to remove before FreeBSD 13. If others with to collaborate on = this > > removal, or discuss it, please do so here. > > > > The list is being maintained on the project WIki: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsGoing/FreeBSD13 >=20 >=20 > I'm in the process of writing some of the criteria I've been using to = drive > discussions. I've promised a formal policy for a long time, but that's > turning out to be harder than I thought to write and have just = documented > the criteria I look at to do the cost / benefit analysis for things. = It's > skewed a bit towards old drivers and old architectures (or platforms = within > those architectures), but it's likely a useful snowman to work towards > something better. https://wiki.freebsd.org/ObsoleteCriteria >=20 > . . . Given discussions such as the one for -r341682 ( one message being = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2018-December/120994.html= ), is a requirement for 64-bit atomics in order to support SMP going to potentially eliminate platforms like the multi-processor 32-bit powerpc support (some old PowerMac models are examples)? Should it be an example in WhatsGoing and a new ProjectPolicy? (While I sometimes have access to a couple of such old PowerMacs and experiment with FreeBSD on them, there is no reason FreeBSD should consider that in any way. I'm just referencing an existing example context.) Separately: Is there a fairly complete list of the Project Policies someplace? Each possibly with the matching MD requirements implications (when there are some)? =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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