From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 17 22:34:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FFD37B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0I6Y9s43405; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:34:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101180634.f0I6Y9s43405@harmony.village.org> To: Will Andrews Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Cc: Greg Lehey , Kenneth Wayne Culver , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:16:18 EST." <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> References: <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:34:09 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> Will Andrews writes: : Of course. But of these people, which really need 5.x's features over : 4.x? Plus they can still compile I386_CPU by itself, which I'm sure : they already do to keep the kernel size as small as possible. That's a red herring. The new features thing is what I mean. If I were creating a product, I'd want one that is supported. So even if I don't *NEED* a feature in 5.x, I might migrate my product to 5.x so that I can continue to get bug fixes and leverage more support than I can get with an older rev. One of the 5.x features might well be a new compiler. I don't see that sort of thing being back ported to 4.x at this point. That's one of the big reasons that we're 4.x based right now rather than 3.x based, despite 4.x's slightly larger memory footprint. That and 4.x's much better c++ compiler. So it isn't as simple as you are trying to paint it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message