Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/29/03

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    To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:04:47 +0200

    In message <20030929195304.GA74320@dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes:

    >> In my book sparc64 is also with one foot in the grave. As is Sun
    >> itself.
    >
    >Fujitsu makes sparc-compatible CPUs, too, so it'll be harder to kill
    >the entire architecture like HP did with the Alpha.

    Having at least on architecture with the other byte order helps
    keep our code honest. I also think that VM afflicted people tend
    to think that it is a good idea to have another model in order to
    keep MI separated properly from MD.

    Alpha has sort of outlived its role as our "token architecture",
    "pc98" doesn't qualify due to inbreeding, "amd64" doesn't qualify
    due to nepotism, "ia64" is not yet there. That leaves us only
    "sparc64" as candidate for that job.

    Therefore I would like to keep the sparc64 port alive, even at a
    pretty high cost in effort. 

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