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Date:      Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:58:48 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c
Message-ID:  <384A6188.2E9A7104@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912050348200.28621-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob wrote:

> In general FreeBSD has been the best at avoiding these problems and has a
> fantastic record for keeping things clean, so perhaps I'm misdirecting
> this. In practice, over the last year, I've seen only a few times when
> things become really unworkable. But what *does* happen is that the lesser
> known architecture suffers (alpha) and stays broken for a few weeks at a
> time. If you factor in sparc, which *will* happen sooner or later, you now
> have three separate architectures, all of which will start to become
> broken at any given point in time.

Precisely. That's why cross-building *is* going to happen. Unless I'm
being stopped, of course :-)

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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