Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:05 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: swarron@gmail.com Cc: gonzo@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has the mips branch code been merged into the head main-line? Message-ID: <20100824.212605.575506241433842730.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinFa-BYjjT6X6G=Waxd3QRjfM9=cB9Eccz1TQ01@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100824.095934.469056195874343280.imp@bsdimp.com> <AANLkTikmKA0OJ5xkAt6bM1U-3FP2PyOdv7mCsYn54oDx@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinFa-BYjjT6X6G=Waxd3QRjfM9=cB9Eccz1TQ01@mail.gmail.com>
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"S.W Arron" <swarron@gmail.com> writes:
: Get it. Thanks for the confirmation. From the experience, head seems
: much stable than the old branch. There is some kernel crash in the old
: mips branch when tested in gxemul while gone in the head.
Yea, lots of work has been done on -current to make the mips tree more
stable.
Warner
: On 8/25/10, Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> wrote:
: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:29 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
: >> In message: <AANLkTi=AWSdvBcwFEDiwCFX=ohOsXwBG5DDBYwNb+Q=W@mail.gmail.com>
: >> "S.W Arron" <swarron@gmail.com> writes:
: >> : Hi, Oleksandr
: >> :
: >> : It seems that the mips branch is removed from the base/projects/mips in
: >> the
: >> : svn repository, and i can't "svn update" to update the mips code. But
: >> "svn
: >> : diff" is still ok, very strange. It is appreciated if some help can be
: >> : provided.
: >> :
: >> : Since 8.0 there is mips directory in sys/, not sure the mips branch code
: >> has
: >> : already been merged into the mainline. Can you help confirm it or give
: >> some
: >> : instruction where to get the latest version for freebsd-mips? Thanks a
: >> lot!
: >>
: >> The mips code has been merged to the mainline. projects/mips has been
: >> svn deleted since we've collapsed it all into head. Juli Mallet does
: >> have a Cavium Octeon branch, but I believe almost all the changes (and
: >> all the important ones) have been merged. FreeBSD 8.x has some mips
: >> code, but the mips code in -current is much better. There's talk
: >> about merging it back to 8, but that's a lot of work that nobody has
: >> had time to do so far.
: >
: > Is there any writeup on how this is done - if it is just a matter of
: > svn merge and fixing up may be I can have a go at this.
: >
: > JC.
: >
:
:
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