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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:21:36 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread Makefile src/lib/libpthread/test thr_create.cthr_private.h thr_sig.c thr_sigmask.c ...
Message-ID:  <3F189D20.2050709@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307181726010.14696-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307181726010.14696-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> 
>>Who are "the arches"?  KSE is a new feature, so the responsibility is on
>>the KSE developers to complete their implementation on all Tier-1
>>platforms.  I've offered Alpha boxes to all the KSE developers and have
>>had zero takers... (same for i386 SMP boxes... but that's another story)
>>
> 
> 
> I dont know the alpha and having a box isn't going to help that.
> I can "guide" soemone who DOES know it as to what the kernel 
> MD parts should do but I'm not in a position to code them.
> 
> They are pretty trivial to describe, but you need to know a lot about
> the architecture in question to know how each function should be
> achieved. 
> 
> I guess what I should do is produce a recipe as to what needs to be
> added to to each architecture's MD files to 'complete' that
> architecture. With that I think specialists in each architecture should
> have little problem filling in the gaps.
> 

That would be an excellent start =-)

Scott



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