Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:29:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Oliver Fromme <oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Cc: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about Kern/15436 Message-ID: <20000707162949.U25571@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200007072147.XAA00715@elch.heim4.tu-clausthal.de>; from oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:47:38PM %2B0200 References: <20000705010454.A26452@peorth.iteration.net> <200007072147.XAA00715@elch.heim4.tu-clausthal.de>
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* Oliver Fromme <oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de> [000707 16:18] wrote: > > Michael C. Wu wrote: > > Will you consider looking at : > > > > http://dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de/~olli/propellers/ > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15436 > > > > It is an additional functionality and should not > > pose a stability/tradition/POLA issue. > > > > Perhaps we can get this done in time for for 4.1-R? > > This would be great, but I doubt it will be in 4.1-R. > Please remember that we're only 2 - 3 weeks away from the > release date, and maybe just one week from the beta stage. > > The ``propellers'' code is not widely tested (although I'm > using it for many months, as well as a few friends of mine, > but I wouldn't call this a ``wide test''), so I'd consider > it to be experimental. 5.0-current is the right place to put > this code into. Whether it's appropriate to MFC it after a > while is a different question, but this won't happen before > 4.1-R, I'm sure. > > BTW, the code that I have (and which I submitted) is for > 4.0-current (about half a year old), and there have been a > few changes to syscons in the meantime. That means that the > code has to undergo some changes before it can be committed. > And right now I have almost _zero_ time to spend on that > (I'm moving and changing jobs). You'd have my support for committing this, I'd love to see it in FreeBSD asap. (As long as it's not the default) It'd be really nifty to see it as a loadable module, although I haven't seen how much it actually bloats the kernel, doing it that way and providing hooks in syscons would be a nice thing. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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