svn commit: r226510 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf ia64/conf sparc64/conf

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 18 19:36:55 UTC 2011


On 10/18/2011 06:45, Ken Smith wrote:
> Author: kensmith
> Date: Tue Oct 18 13:45:16 2011
> New Revision: 226510
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226510
> 
> Log:
>   Comment out the sbp(4) driver for architectures that support it.
>   
>   As part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle this was done in stable/8 (r199112)
>   but was left alone in head so people could work on fixing an issue that
>   caused boot failure on some motherboards.  Apparently nobody has worked
>   on it and we are getting reports of boot failure with the 9.0 test builds.
>   So this time I'll comment out the driver in head (still hoping someone
>   will work on it) and MFC to stable/9.

Hope is not a plan. :)  How about adding a comment to the effect that
"this is broken, and needs someone to adopt it"? At least that would
explain why it's commented out so that people like me don't un-comment
it and wonder why their box won't boot (true story). It might also
attract an actual human to look at it ...


Doug

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