SF Bay area hackfest

[Julian Elischer]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > who cares?
> 
> That's the wrong answer.

yes I know.

It's just that we decided at the dev summit that we were dropping alpha
as a tier one platform and everyone seems to have forgotten that.
Sparc support is planned but we've had very little input from Sparc
developers (are there any?)

>  There is a formal statement from the project
> that sparc64 is a tier-1 platform and also the reference platform for 64
> bit support.  The definition of tier-1 is that new functionality is
> added to all tier-1 platforms.  This is no exception.  I'm not going to
> re-open the tier discussion right now, though we indeed need to review
> it in the next month or two.  For rgiht now, plan on supporting all
> tier-1 platforms.  You don't need to necessarily write all the code
> yourself for these, but you have to be prepared to take them into
> consideration and take responsibility for getting the code written
> by someone.
> 
> Scott
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:01:11PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >>
> >>>Let's get basic functionality woring on x86 and amd64 before we start
> >>>diverging into optimization strategies.
> >>
> >>Uh, what about basic functionalty on Sparc64 and Alpha?
> >> 
> >>-- 
> >>-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
> >>
> > 
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