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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:16:25 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030213221625.GA86465@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpwuk3suq3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <200302132113.h1DLDARX092847@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpznozsvrz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030213215732.GF553@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <xzpwuk3suq3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:04:36PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > >   We only provide agp drivers for the intel chipsets, move the agp
> > > >   subdir to the i386-only section.
> > > Some Alphas have AGP slots.
> > As do ia64 calculators. Even HP's zx1 based calculators have AGP.
> > None of them are supported by us I think, but that's a different
> > story.
> 
> My point is that the agp module used to build and load fine on Alpha
> (though I don't know if it worked, as my PWS doesn't have an AGP
> slot).
...
> #ifdefs, Peter just yanks it from the Alpha build.  Is that really the
> way to go?

Yes it *definitely* is.  If something doesn't work on an Alpha, I (as one
of the Alpha committers) don't want to build it.  Period.

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