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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:55:58 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?
Message-ID:  <20030227235558.GA1596@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f29ba84405d006d@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <XFMail.20030227160443.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <p05200f29ba84405d006d@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >I doubt the usefulness of this.  i386 kernels were just accidentally
> >broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing.
> >People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer
> >either.  I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for
> >rather long periods of time before being noticed as well.
> 
> Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release
> process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel?

It's never good to add to your release cycle something you don't
build/validate during development. Releases are painful enough
that you don't want to turn them into testbeds. If it's not
worth testing during development, it's not worth releasing...

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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