Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:24:10 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <200411171724.10708.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041117151848.B780@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20041109225940.GA12940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20041110050258.44554.qmail@web53105.mail.yahoo.com> <20041117151848.B780@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:18 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Matthew Jacob [mjacob44@yahoo.com] wrote: > > My opinion, FWIW, is to put Alpha in the class of machines that is > > supported by NetBSD, i.e., the hobby architectures. > > I agree. Its sad, but I think we should remove alpha from HEAD. > The main reason for holding on through the 5.x changes was to get > alpha SMP support in a released version of FreeBSD. We have that now, > in 5.x I won't stand against it, but I do actually do testing on the DS20 I have here. Unfortunately my jhb_preemption branch with a kernel with 4BSD + PREEMPTION locked up during a buildworld loop last night. *sigh* -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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