From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 19:59:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DC11065676; Sun, 25 May 2008 19:59:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: from what-creek.com (what-creek.com [66.111.37.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34048FC28; Sun, 25 May 2008 19:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: by what-creek.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id 443EE73319; Sun, 25 May 2008 19:59:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 19:59:55 +0000 From: John Birrell To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20080525195955.GB5179@what-creek.com> References: <200805250248.m4P2mv8U026913@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080525180014.S63463@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080525180014.S63463@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, John Birrell , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 19:59:56 -0000 On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > Is there something in your recent work that prevents sun4v from compiling > and hence justifies disabling it entirely, and hence guaranteeing it won't > compile in the future because it falls off the "make it compile" radar? If > so, then a policy decision to drop sun4v support may be called for -- but > this is something to discuss with the people who added support for the > architecture, the release engineering team, etc, and not to make > unilaterally. When I added sun4v to universe back in 2006, I had hopes that it would live up to it's early promise. Adding it back then was premature. I guess you could say I made a unilateral decision back then. :-D The last time I checked, the sun4v port wouldn't even boot on my T2000, so I have to ask if there is anyone who even knows that. Or cares. Just keeping the code compiling is not good enough. It has to actually work. I haven't removed any support for building sun4v. I just think that the few people who do build universe shouldn't have to wait for a dead port to build. -- John Birrell