Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:02 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060517080702.GA51740@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0605160917280.25554@tea.blinkenlights.nl> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <Pine.SOC.4.61.0605160917280.25554@tea.blinkenlights.nl>
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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0200, Sten Spans wrote.. > On Thu, 11 May 2006, John Baldwin wrote: > > >Alpha was the first non-x86 port that was added to FreeBSD, and as such it > >has > >greatly aided the efforts to keep FreeBSD from being too i386-centric. > >However, recently the Alpha port has not had any active development or > >maintenance. As a result, the quality of the Alpha releases that the > >Project > >provides are not on par with other supported architectures and is in fact > >degrading. Unfortunately, as an architecture it has also been killed by > >its > >creator. > > > >After considering all of this, it is time to part with Alpha for 7.0 and > >beyond. At this time it is still planned to provide 6.x releases for > >FreeBSD/alpha. The code will still be around in CVS history if someone > >suddenly shows up and fixes a bunch of bugs and/or the architecture is > >revived. Users with Alpha systems are welcome to use existing releases of > >FreeBSD/alpha or another BSD such as NetBSD/alpha. We would still like to > >see bug fixes for FreeBSD/alpha on 6.x so that the final release is solid. > > A backport of the if_em jumboframe changes would be nice > for the last few alpha people with gigabit, although I'll > probably will be able to backport it myself. I'm more than happy to stick patches into RELENG_6. I don't think my GbE switch understands jumbo packets, but I do have em(4) cards in my Alpha as you know :) > /me wanders off, still looking for that elusive alphaserver ds15 :) Same here :-/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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