From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 16 23:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp8.xs4all.nl (smtp8.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAD237B405; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp8.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07216; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7H6JTx02956; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:19:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:19:29 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "David O'Brien" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dropping compiler support in -current Message-ID: <20010817081929.A2859@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010816215807.B5722@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010816215807.B5722@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:58:07PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:58:07PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Great. Just great. With one halfbaked CPU port after the other sprouting out of the project the one single port that *works* [sortof] is being nuked by x86-centric developments. Maybe it is about time to *think* instead of hacking away blindly. If this whole blindness is not changed into something more productive we might as well throw the ppc, arm, sparc fledgling ports in the can here and now. [Yes, I'm pissed. And no, this is not a stab at David] Wilko > 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 | > \\| |// > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message