From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 18:46:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EAC37B42C; Sun, 27 May 2001 18:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4S1kfl42972; Sun, 27 May 2001 18:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4S0S1N45222; Sun, 27 May 2001 17:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:28:00 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: core@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken loader? Message-ID: <20010527172800.A45187@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010526145104.C11876@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com> <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:08:10PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:08:10PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: I should have first said how much I appreciate Daniel and he is a God send as he took on 4th where no one else would. With out Daniel we would not have any where near as good a loader as we do. He is doing a thankless job. My only qualms are [potentially] dangerous commits that are not tested across all platforms. I know it can slow things down some, but I think a better approach would be to post diffs for an upgrade/overhall to freebsd-alpha, freebsd-ppc, and what ever list would reach freebsd-pc98 users; and ask for people to test it. You would probably have to wait 2-3 weeks for feedback, but considering how fundamental the loader is (and how most of us cannot even read .4th files so debugging by others quite hard), is such a delay really no tolerable. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message