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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2008 07:54:14 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>, John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile
Message-ID:  <20080528145414.GD85398@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080526082614.C6489@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200805250248.m4P2mv8U026913@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080525180014.S63463@fledge.watson.org> <20080525195955.GB5179@what-creek.com> <20080525225523.F36357@fledge.watson.org> <20080525221112.GH5179@what-creek.com> <20080526082614.C6489@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:31:02AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> According to our tier documentation, sun4v is a tier 2 platform -- either 
> on the way up, or on the way down, depending on how you look at it.  All of 
> the other tier 2 platforms, including ARM, PowerPC, ia64 and sparc64,
> appear in make universe, and I would expect objections if any of them
> were removed from make universe also.

I think you're missing the distinction between architectures that are
runable (sparc64, ia64, PowerPC, ARM) and those that are not - sun4v.

The reason why folks would object to those being removed is because they
actually do work.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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