From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 23 8:48:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D6A37B5E2 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26235; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:48:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:48:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Greg Lehey Cc: Matthew Dillon , Bernd Walter , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Evans Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development In-Reply-To: <20000622135656.D845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 22 June 2000 at 10:07:38 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >>> > >>> Ok, I have put up a web page that will track my efforts. > >>> > >>> http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSDSmp/ > >> > >> Your first patchset contains only i386 code. > >> What is the timeframe for alpha relative to i386? > >> Will each i386 code step converted to it a short time later or finally > >> after the i386 code completely has been stabilized? > > > > The alpha code is going to be dealt with by the alpha guys. I am > > not an alpha assembly programmer. There is going to be considerably > > more breakage for the alpha port in the next month then the i386 port, > > but hopefully it will get worked out. > > Hmm. This adds another dependency. We will really need to get the > Alpha code in place before we can commit anything. Is there anybody > out there who can do this? If neither Doug nor Andrew have volunteered for this, I'll take it on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message