Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 23:04:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers: Message-ID: <3B8B3477.18E10DA4@mindspring.com> References: <3B89DE24.E629788@elischer.org> <15242.37206.54444.140501@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > I'd really appreciate it if you could make the mechanical changes > required to get it to the point where it at least compiles on alpha > using beast.freebsd.org. At that point, the people on -alpha should be > willing to test your patch and help fix any problems that come up. It has been pointed out that the stumbling block is ~10 lines of Akpha assembly language code that Julian is asking that someone familiar with the Alpha write. Julian is not an Alpha assembly language guru. In order to make these changes, he would have to do a lot of work, whereas someone who knew Alpha assembly language could do them very quickly. I think asking him to do this without knowledge of register save/restore and allocation plocies of the FreeBSD Alpha port is rather unfair. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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