From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 14 16:27: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from webcom.it (unknown [212.239.10.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE5DA37B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4806 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Jan 2001 00:20:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:20:26 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: developer@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010115012026.B4504@webcom.it> References: <20010114221651.A3627@webcom.it> <31573.979509396@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <31573.979509396@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:56:36PM +0100 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Sorry Poul, I think the question here is: "if we decide to remove i386 support > >BUT a few people still want to use it and can maintain it as a separate > >platform port, is it an option to do so, from a technical point of view?" > > > (This is a general answer, not just about i386 support:) > > Any feature in FreeBSD needs a minimum amount of maintenance. If > nobody cares about some particular bit of code, it will slowly of > quickly rot away. Sure, but my question was different. I wrote "want to use it and can maintain". I was asking, if somebody is willing enough, is it feasible to split it to a separate arch, and put it under that person's maintainership? Of course, if nobody is willing to do this, then obviously it's not worth it, I agree. And no, I'm not volunteering ;-) > The reason against doing so is that it complicates our code. Makes > it less readable. Forces us to make tradeoffs which hits modern > hardware on the performance meter. Agree. But splitting it out is a one time job, I don't think it would be that hard, and after that you can delete old code from x86 tree, and let x386 tree live its own life... Bye, Andrea -- If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message