Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:59:21 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c initcpu.c locore.s machdep.c mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include asnames.h md_var.h Message-ID: <20030123095921.C96257@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <20030123085352.GS18342@survey.codeburst.net>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:53:52AM %2B0000 References: <200301222014.h0MKEr8k018331@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030123085352.GS18342@survey.codeburst.net>
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Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> writes: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:14:53PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > jhb 2003/01/22 12:14:53 PST > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c initcpu.c locore.s machdep.c > > mp_machdep.c > > sys/i386/include asnames.h md_var.h > > Log: > > MFC: Precursors to simple hyperthreading support and sync with current: > > Is it a good idea to do this in 4? > > We should stop moving new features into 4 for 2 reasons, a) I've always > been against feature development of -stable, but b) we need to encourage > take-up of our latest branch and the less "modern" 4 is the more likely > people will be to migrate around 5.2. The SMP work won't be such a huge > draw since so few people have SMP machines. I think John needs to run FreeBSD in a production environment on new systems. This leaves no alternative but to backport this to 4.x. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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