From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 1 19:28:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27467 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27458 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04267; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:28:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803020328.WAA04267@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <350322e7.31438465@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Mar 2, 98 03:19:29 am" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:28:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Kelly said: > > Before the weather gets hot would be good. > > I think it's needed before the next big wave of architectural changes > hits the tree, like ELF and such. Those should be called 4.0. Maybe > 3.X will have a short life span, but that's OK -- many people need 3.0 > now. > I think that the *biggest* and most complex thing that will be missing will be the fine-grained SMP. It seems that we'll have ELF support, but I forget (or simply don't know) if we (they) decided that ELF will be primary or not. I cannot imagine an official freeze will happen before at least a month or two. As I suggested though, the lower-level subsystems need to work well very very soon. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message