cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC

[Scott Long]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 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*
> 

I won't stand against it either.  It's something that we will consider
at the RELENG_6 branchpoint.  Either it stays in and we guarantee that
it continues to compile for the life of 6.x (note that I say _compile_,
not _work_), or it gets removed for RELENG_6 and stays in HEAD (like PPC
for RELENG_5), or it gets removed from HEAD before the branch point.

Scott