Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:40:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711101840.LAA10030@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <13897.879152704@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 10, 97 01:05:04 am
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> > Sorry, but there is one question left bothering me: > > What is the state of FreeBSD's ALPHA port? > > Going nowhere fast. Perhaps if the source tree were reorganized to be more multiple architecture friendly, progress would speed up? Converting changes to the FreeBSD source tree to an architecture friendly layout is no mean feat. It generally consumes a large part of the porter's time, for zero net gain (but without this process, you end up with code that is hopelessly out of date and thus impossible to integrate later -- like Jack Vogel's SPARC port of FreeBSD 1.5.1). As it is, I have a hard enough time keeping up with VM changes in my attempts to port FreeBSD's VM to NetBSD x86 and Alpha. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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