From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Aug 24 13:15:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC5D37B423; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05591; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:14:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAROaGWk; Thu Aug 24 13:13:46 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13863; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:14:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008242014.NAA13863@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) To: darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au (Darren Reed) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:14:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200008200842.SAA07457@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> from "Darren Reed" at Aug 20, 2000 06:42:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > If people are saying the x86 part of FreeBSD is weakening (some > say since the adoption of alpha) I don't think it is a good idea > to start (or promote) work on a sparc port. I would, in fact, like hard statistics and documentation of the measuring syystem(s) used to achieve this conclusion. Without this, the statement that the x86 port is being "hurt" by other platforms is nothing more than unsupported FUD. > Personally, I think it is more important for FreeBSD to concentrate > on getting IA-64 (and AMD 64bit) support happening than for sparc64 > and that sparc64 is a waste of time/effort for FreeBSD. Concentrate > on what FreeBSD is good at doing and don't get distracted. FreeBSD is code, not a human being. It does not "concentrate". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message