Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:17:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken loader? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105271715360.22879-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200105280013.f4S0DAE58169@harmony.village.org>
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And don't forget ia64 and the soon to be arriving ppc!!! as well as arm! Wheeeeeeeee! I don't much like what Daniel did with this, but, hey, I suspect he feels bad. This is a *lot* better than somebody I know who has the same name as an early english monarch who also regular porks (err, 'breaks') the alpha port. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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