Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:15:19 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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[I've just realised that I broke my e-mail a few weeks ago and mutt has been helpfully and invisibly inserting a "Mail-Followup-To" line that includes an address that won't work. Thanks to Wilko for (inadvertently) drawing my attention to it and apologies for any bounces. I hope I've fixed it.] On Fri, 2006-May-19 11:41:54 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >One thing that I have been pondering is that for Alpha you will now have to >directly commit things onto RELENG_[56] without going to HEAD first. > >After all, there is no buildable Alpha support in HEAD anymore. > >I think this is a first in FreeBSD, which makes it interesting.. There have been device drivers that have been lost in -current before so it not a totally novel concept but this is the first architecture to have been dropped. >Well.. if you just count the problems with unaligned accesses etc >I wonder if SPARC64 fills that gap? I just don't know enough about >SPARC64 here, mind you. SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses. I'm not sure what Sun did with the SPARC64. The other option is to set the "alignment checking" bit on i386. -- Peter Jeremy
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