cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 17 14:48:31 PST 2004


On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:18 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Matthew Jacob [mjacob44 at yahoo.com] wrote:
> > My opinion, FWIW, is to put Alpha in the class of machines that is
> > supported by NetBSD, i.e., the hobby architectures.
>
> I agree.  Its sad, but I think we should remove alpha from HEAD.
> The main reason for holding on through the 5.x changes was to get
> alpha SMP support in a released version of FreeBSD.  We have that now,
> in 5.x

I won't stand against it, but I do actually do testing on the DS20 I have 
here.  Unfortunately my jhb_preemption branch with a kernel with 4BSD + 
PREEMPTION locked up during a buildworld loop last night. *sigh*

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