From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 17:54:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487D010656A7 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BD08FC18 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19692 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2010 17:54:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Aug 2010 17:54:23 -0000 Message-ID: <4C6D6FD7.7060106@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:54:31 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <201008191153.o7JBrtbl002979@svn.freebsd.org> <4C6D2933.9020306@freebsd.org> <20100819.112040.914206331691540228.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100819.112040.914206331691540228.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, adrian@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r211503 - head/sys/mips/atheros X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:54:34 -0000 On 19.08.2010 19:20, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message:<4C6D2933.9020306@freebsd.org> > Andre Oppermann writes: > : On 19.08.2010 13:53, Adrian Chadd wrote: > :> Author: adrian > :> Date: Thu Aug 19 11:53:55 2010 > :> New Revision: 211503 > :> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211503 > :> > :> Log: > :> Add some initial AR724X chipset support. > :> > :> This is untested but should at least allow an AR724X to boot. > : > : Isn't this something that should be done on a project branch and > : merged back when in a good working state? > > We don't have a branch for mips stuff these days. This stuff is OK, > since the AR724X is just being rolled out right now... For non AR724x > systems, this won't affect anything... I was more concerned about tree breakage for non-tested code. When developing something bleeding edge it is often useful to just commit some stuff and have it sorted out later. In head this is more dangerous. A small AR724X development branch would be ideal for this. Branching is cheap with SVN these days. -- Andre