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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:46:50 -0500
From:      Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>,  freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>,  Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>,  "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>,  Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
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Is it possible to have the instruction sets moved from one architecture to
another? Would this require more registers? Since there are Open
Architectures, it should be possible to create a CPU with shared
instruction sets.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:06:35AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > We don=E2=80=99t have a =E2=80=9Cking of the kernel=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=
=9Cking of mips=E2=80=9D or anything
> > like that.  We document that you send mail to mips@ when you don=E2=80=
=99t
> > know the right person to send.
>
> And I don't see why we should.  What would we gain from this administrati=
ve
> overhead?
>
> What we lose is: dealing with people who have the title not doing work,
> or people not having the title, doing the work, being irritated by not
> having the title.
>
> svn can, with a little effort, demonstrate who is looking after what.
>
> All I see is cost and no benefit.  This isn't an "org chart" kind of
> issue IMHO.
>
> In FreeBSD, why delegate responsibility to anyone other than those who
> take it by their own initiative?
>
> mcl
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