Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:30:08 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken loader? Message-ID: <3B11B830.C049533@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105251953130.14962-100000@zeppo.feral.com> <20010526145104.C11876@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com> <20010527170810.A91713@hub.freebsd.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > My guess is that the newly imported FICL 2.05 + the forth stuff we use > > at boot got too big for the space allocated for the dictionary on the > > alpha. This happened to me when using my more comprehensive stuff > > instead of the standard stuff on the i386. Reason why I made commit to > > remedy this. > > Daniel this is not the first time you've screwed the Alpha users with > loader commits/upgrades. Once was forgivable, twice is frankly quite > unforgivable. You have once again _wasted_ a significant amount of your > fellow developer's time. Actually, I do not recall having screwed alpha users on any other time. I recall FICL stuff not working on alpha at all at the beginning, because of memory problems, and loader getting screwed on alpha by someone else with a non-ficl related change that also pushed it over the memory limit (though ficl was a suspect at that time, because the bug _manifested_ itself only when it got to ficl). > I want the backing of Core that NO FICL upgrades or major .4th changes > can be committed until they have been tested (compiled and booted) on all > platforms. I really don't think I would be allowed to upgrade the > toolchain if it had only been tested on Alpha and x86. I fail to see why > something as important and fundamental as the loader (and harder to > replace if you FUBAR it and loader.old) should be any different. Whatever. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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