warning of pending commit attempt.
Kip Macy
kip.macy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 23:02:47 UTC 2008
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >>> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:44:56PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> At some stage in the next few weeks I will be trying to commit
> >>>>> Marco Zec's vimage code to -current. (only 'trying' not
> >>>>> for technical reasons, but political).
> >>> ...
> >>>>> Why now?
> >>>>> The code is in a shape where teh compiled out version of hte
> >>>>> system is stable. In the compiled in version, it is functional
> >>>>> enough to provide nearly all of what people want. It needs people
> >>>>> with other interests to adapt it to their purposes and use it so
> >>>>> that it can become a solid product for future releases.
> >>>>
> >>>> The website has a snapshot with a date over a month old and many
> >>>> comments about unstable interfaces. I've seen zero reports of
> >>>> substantial testing...
> >>>
> >>> What about locking and SMP scalability? Any new choke points?
> >>
> >> not that I've seen.
> >
> > That's a less than resounding endorsement :)
>
> do the 10Gb ethernet adapters have any major problems?
> are you willing to answer "no"?
> should we then rip them from the tree?
>
> I'm saying "this is work in progress" It seems stable and useful.
> until we can get more than 6 people running it we won't know more.
>
Given how long it has been since RELENG_7 branched - if its really a
no-op when disabled, I personally don't see it any issues with it.
-Kip
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