From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 17 17:43:19 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A950837B408; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EE243F93; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3D1679DA; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7A0E103B; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:11 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Julian Elischer Cc: Jake Burkholder , Scott Long , Julian Elischer , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha exception.s genassym.c Message-ID: <20030218014311.GA80429@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030217152317.D81102@locore.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:20:57PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > As a sidebar, in my opinion sparc is irrelevant except as a porting > exercize to keep the code clean. I think it is damaging to the project > to have it a tier 1 architecture. In case no-one has noticed the sparc > comes with a unix OS already, so the market is miniscule. techncally > nice, but basically irrelevant to the success of the project except as a > roadblock to progress. Anyhow that's just my opinion. Others are free to > disagree (and obviously do). (Nothing personal, just my opinion on > where we should be placing sparc stuff in he overall priority list.) IA64 also comes with a unix OS (Linux). So does alpha and i386. Why don't we all pack up and go home? Kris --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+UY+vWry0BWjoQKURAuk1AJ9rj6guIklQeqN9+N4PtaUTSm7P9wCfbDmo 73WAqib+OEn8d9KB4pOyCTM= =8HIA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message