From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 25 10:38:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B258937B406 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B1243FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14192 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 18:38:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Feb 2003 18:38:33 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1PIbFhT020434; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:37:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E59272E.83E8072D@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:38:41 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Removing support for SimOS Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar 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 23-Feb-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:20:27AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > I'm just wondering why you are removing support for something that >> > apparently works, to make it not work? >> >> It already doesn't work and there's no indication that there's an >> interest in making it work again. In the mean time it's preventing >> LINT from linking and thus is getting in the way. > > OK, so someone made a commit that broke LINT because it failed to > maintain the SIMOS #ifdef'ed code. > > This makes a lot more sense to remove it, then (but reverting the > commit that caused it to break also makes sense, to me...). You'd need to update the simos.c driver to use new-bus, etc. If someone wants to fix it, they can always get it out of the Attic. If no one wants to maintain it, then it can rot just as easily in the Attic as in the tree. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message