SF Bay area hackfest

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Mar 24 13:14:27 PST 2004



On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 12:22 PM -0800 2004/03/24, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> >  who cares?
> >
> >  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?
> 
> 	Well, it depends.  Would things be broken for SPARC64, or would 
> it just not have TLS (which could presumably be added later)?

it would just mean that you could not do TLS.. 

umm I actually forget the state of Sparc KSE support now.
we were waiting for help on something but I never heard if we got it..
I guess Dan would know.


> 
> 	If things would be broken for SPARC64, then I would be very 
> disappointed to be unable to get my Ultra 10 clones up and working in 
> the near future.
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
> 
> GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
> !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
> tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
> 



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