From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 09:36:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3610D16A40A for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 09:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@infopuls.com) Received: from dachs.cyberlink.ch (dachs.cyberlink.ch [62.12.136.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB5A43D53 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 09:36:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@infopuls.com) Received: (qmail 27660 invoked by uid 600); 12 May 2006 09:36:41 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.9 ppid: 27656, pid: 27657, t: 0.0128s scanners: regex: 1.0.9 clamav: 0.88/m:38/d:1459 Message-ID: <20060512093641.27656.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060511223035.189F545053@ptavv.es.net> <20060512091236.GA56790@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060512091236.GA56790@freebie.xs4all.nl> From: ulrich.ulrich@alumni.ethz.ch To: alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:36:41 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:45:10 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:36:45 -0000 Hi folks, a couple of weeks ago a professional FreeBSD supporter managed to bring my PWS500a up to work with 4.11 after many failing attempts by myself. Some of you may remember that I posted a few questions about this machine to this list. Since then I'm using the machine as server and I'm very happy with it. Of course, I regret that the Alpha branch is not continued in FreeBSD development because I intend to use this and some other Alpha boxes that I plan to buy for many years. I like the Alpha architecture and I got the impression that most of the higher level problems like seg-faults in Mozilla on Alpha are caused by dirty programming techniques or bugs in the C compiler related to 64 Bit addressing. Cleaning up such problems would result in better code for the other architectures also. Nevertheless: Thank you very much for FreeBSD/Alpha so far! Ulrich