From owner-freebsd-platforms Tue Mar 18 16:55:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18620 for platforms-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA18615 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA11003; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:41:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703190041.RAA11003@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: To share or not share ? (was: Someone working on a SPARC version?) To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:41:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au, srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au, freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <332F4EAD.3A87@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni" at Mar 18, 97 06:25:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > You are talking about a large scale code merge and a restructuring of > > the build tree. I agree totally, 100%. > > I find the word "merge" big for this situation (of course, I'm also > finding out you think BIG). To merge you need two parts joining into > one. We will "share", "copy", "adopt" some of their things, but they > will not adopt our things and if they do, the resulting systems will be > different. > > To be more specific, we want our PC devices like they are right now (or > with very slight, trivial changes). It is not clear how this would > change if the build tree changes. On NetBSD the devices suffered this > effects so would have to face it sooner or later. I think it would benefit Alpha and PPC based bxes with PCI and other "PC-like" busses. This is what Gassee meant when he said "the PC clone organ bank" with reference to the design of the BeBox. > So ..what goes on? Should we leave the reshuffle for 20.0-current? A CVS guru needs to move the CVS tree contents around without losing the history. The next step ought to be giving such a guru carte blanche, after deciding how the multiplatform FreeBSD tree should look (I have no problem with using the NetBSD or OpenBSD model, which is why I phrased it as an afterthought). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.