From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 12: 9:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A5437B7D9 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E88DAE2; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:09:19 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000619115330.D79318@blitz.canonware.com> References: <20000619115330.D79318@blitz.canonware.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:08:56 +0200 To: Jason Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:53 AM -0700 2000/6/19, Jason Evans wrote: > Last week, approximately 20 BSD developers got together and discussed how > to move FreeBSD's SMP support to the next level. Our effort will be > largely based on the work that has been done in BSD/OS, which should make > things go much more smoothly than they otherwise might, but we still expect > -current to be destabilized for an extended period of time. Wow. Cool. Way cool. My mind is already beginning to boggle, just thinking of what very little I know of what must go into a process like this.... On a totally non-technical, but somewhat related note, can anyone give me any kind of idea how often relatively "large scale" changes like this typically occur with FreeBSD? By the time I came along, I think -CURRENT was already well into 4.x, so I don't have that kind of history to fall back on. I'm just intensely curious to know how often "revolutions" of this kind of scale typically happen within this project. I can't wait to see the discussions go on with relation to all this stuff! However, if you don't mind I think I'll continue to track RELENG_4 and listen over here to get some idea of what may be ultimately coming down the pike over there for -STABLE. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message