On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:00:35PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:
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> Matt Dillon wrote:
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> > :> and preferably on more than the i386 platform. If we are going to
> > :> be serious about supporting more hardware platforms, then we have
> > :> to start treating them more seriously when major changes like this
> > :> come along. If we can't get some broader testing of this done in
...
> That's about what I thought it would be...
>
> If the other archetectures are so flaky right now under FreeBSD, then maybe some
>people are barking up the wrong tree when it comes
> to opposing KSE integration using the other archetectures as the crux of their
>argument. Sounds like they need to be kicking some
> butts to catch up with the pack!
>
> Testing should be across the board, but I don't see any reason why, if the
>maintainers of the other archetectures are so behind on
> other tasks that they can't have a seperate, later, 5.0-RELEASE for them. We
>shouldn't sacrifice intel functionality for timetable
> slippage on the other archetectures, and honestly, that's how I'm reading the
>arguments against... Again, I could be wrong, but...
You are. This is a far to simplistic (and IMHO quite rude) approach to the
non-x86 work that has been done over time.
> Of course, we could always end up like NetBSD, with a development cycle that makes
>FreeBSD's current cycle look fast, only because
> of support for all of the different archetectures. No offense to the NetBSD'ers out
>there, NetBSD is a fine OS, but my point is
> that FreeBSD is [or was] a different paradigm, primarily [but not exclusively] intel.
You seem to have missed the advent of arm, sparc64, powerpc ports for FreeBSD.
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