Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:07:06 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@rush.net Subject: Re: Some ideas on the evolution of -CURRENT Message-ID: <19990430190706.A11334@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <99Apr13.143255est.40354@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:46:10PM %2B1000 References: <99Apr13.143255est.40354@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:46:10PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> wrote: > >> - Insert Your Favorite Vapor Feature: ____________________________ > > > >sparc64, LFS... *hides* > > To quote from the relevant FreeBSD LINT log entry: > > If you want to play with it, you can find the final version of the > code in the repository the tag LFS_RETIREMENT. > > If somebody makes LFS work again, adding it back is certainly > desireable, but as it is now nobody seems to care much about it, > and it has suffered considerable bitrot since its somewhat haphazard > integration. > > Several other people have commented that NetBSD has got it going. > How difficult would it be to merge the NetBSD stuff? Very - the problems are in the directions the VM system has taken. NetBSDs work in this area is unlikely to be useful, I think - AFAIK, even with UVM they haven't gone to a fully merged VM/buffer cache. I would be happy to be proved wrong, of course. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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