Has the mips branch code been merged into the head main-line?

S.W Arron swarron at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 02:44:57 UTC 2010


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.

On 8/25/10, Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:29 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> In message: <AANLkTi=AWSdvBcwFEDiwCFX=ohOsXwBG5DDBYwNb+Q=W at mail.gmail.com>
>>            "S.W Arron" <swarron at 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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