From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 16 21:58:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dsl092-013-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4889037B401 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7H4w8f05897 for alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:58:07 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: dropping compiler support in -current Message-ID: <20010816215807.B5722@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org With another 3 hours spent chasing panics and bad kernels today (on top of the lost weeks since May), I am no longer willing to keep the toolchain up to date for the Alpha platform. We simply have no developers running -current on Alpha hardware anymore. Sorry, but Alpha has just become too much of a dead platform as far as FreeBSD goes it seems. . -|- | .-'~~~`-. .' `. | R I P | | | | A X P | \\| |// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message