Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:32PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: this email is a minimum 24 hour notice that SMP code will be committed to -current. What is the status of the Alpha bits? Will we have a working kernel after the commit, or should we

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-06 Thread John Baldwin
Doug Rabson wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:32PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: this email is a minimum 24 hour notice that SMP code will be committed to -current. What is the status of the Alpha bits? Will we have a working kernel after

HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread Jason Evans
In compliance with the SMP project announcement (archived at http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smp_project_announcement.txt), this email is a minimum 24 hour notice that SMP code will be committed to -current. A large patch including major changes to how the kernel works will be checked in

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:32PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: this email is a minimum 24 hour notice that SMP code will be committed to -current. What is the status of the Alpha bits? Will we have a working kernel after the commit, or should we site tight for a week while the Alpha bits are

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread Jason Evans
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:37:38PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: What is the status of the Alpha bits? Will we have a working kernel after the commit, or should we site tight for a week while the Alpha bits are tweaked into working status? It should work (compile and run), though interrupt

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Progress will be more rapid with things checked in than not, as long as Jason's statement about "the (alpha) system will run" after the checkin. Jason- I think we'd all appreciate a UTC timestamp suitable for -D that we can all use to checkout stuff prior to the big change. -matt To

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread Jason Evans
[-smp dropped from cc list.] On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: Jason- I think we'd all appreciate a UTC timestamp suitable for -D that we can all use to checkout stuff prior to the big change. I initially wrote: Also in compliance with the SMP project

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: Jason- I think we'd all appreciate a UTC timestamp suitable for -D that we can all use to checkout stuff prior to the big change. There will be a TAG for that to make life easier. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To

Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent

2000-09-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Oops- sorry- this is what I get for catching up email after a long day. Thanks. On 5 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: [-smp dropped from cc list.] On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: Jason- I think we'd all appreciate a UTC timestamp suitable for -D that we can