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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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Subject: Re: broken loader? 
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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
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