From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 27 1: 0:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A278437B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7R864u00988; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108270806.f7R864u00988@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:47:48 PDT." <3B89DF04.F6A250F9@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:06:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am ready to do my megga-commit to add the first stage of KSE-threading > support to the kernel. If there is any argument as to the wisdom of this > move, then this is the time to speak up! > > At this stage a commit would break alpha and ia64 until > they are patched. From experience I can say that it's not a horrific > change to the machine dependent code so patches PRE commit would be > welcome. I would ask that we get some indication from the IA64/Alpha/etc folks about this *before* you commit, even if they're not ready with patches yet, it would be wise to know how long before they would be. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message