On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:19PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500 > >schrieb John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > > >>>If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either > >>>because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's > >>>no > >>>usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the > >>>linux > >>>part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner. > >> > >>Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :) I've done > >>various > >>things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the > >>#ifdef __alpha__'s. > > > > > >But this would introduce a dependency on COMPAT_43 again... > > > >Bye, > >Alexander. > > > > In all honesty, Alpha is tier-2, and its days are numbered. That > doesn't mean that I'm proposing that it get axed from CVS right now, > but I also don't think that it is worth spending a lot of time on.
As long as it is surgically/cleanly removed to ensure that Alpha at least continues to build removing Linux compatibility does not appear too much of a problem. Wilko _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
