Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: David also has patches for debugging support at: http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse/dbg/ Unless David Xu completes full FSF paper work, we can't use his patches. Using them tants us forever in getting stock GDB to support our

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:48:17PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:27:08PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce. What platforms? My understanding was that new binutils and gcc was needed for sparc64 at a

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:12:49PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but it's the

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Thomas Moestl
On Sun, 2004/06/06 at 14:59:21 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:49:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: amd64 is approaching critical mass for tier-1. There are a number of developers that own amd64 hardware now, and a number of users who are asking about it on the mailing

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Scott Long
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote: At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking item for releases. ... As I said back then, demotion is not a terminal condition, and I would be

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:37:12AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: One thing to note is that whatever platforms get dropped from tier-1 status will have a high probablility of not getting updated with the upcoming binutils/gcc/gdb update that is coming. Logic dictates that the probability should be

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Peter Wemm
On Monday 07 June 2004 07:33 am, Thomas Moestl wrote: On Sun, 2004/06/06 at 14:59:21 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:49:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: amd64 is approaching critical mass for tier-1. There are a number of developers that own amd64 hardware now, and a

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 AM -0600 6/7/04, Scott Long wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: I think you have to officially demote it, with emphasis on the point that demotion is not a terminal condition. Then, if some developer(s) show up and implement all the missing pieces, we can happily announce it back in tier 1.

HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
All, We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. There are reports of significant instability on amd64, and it doesn't work at all on alpha and sparc64. I'm willing to drop the alpha requirement and maybe even the sparc64

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:14:57PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: All, We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. I don't have any problems on ia64. ... I'm willing to drop the alpha requirement and maybe even the

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Scott Long wrote: All, We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. There are reports of significant instability on amd64, and it doesn't work at all on alpha and sparc64. I'm willing to drop

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Daniel Eischen wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Scott Long wrote: All, We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. There are reports of significant instability on amd64, and it doesn't work at all on alpha and sparc64. I'm

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:14:57PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: All, We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. I don't have any problems on ia64. Good to hear =-) ... I'm willing to drop the alpha

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:27:08PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce. What platforms? My understanding was that new binutils and gcc was needed for sparc64 at a minimum. Yes. It's i386 only and not even close to being complete. In fact,

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but it's the projects responsibility to take the tierness and the intend to support multiple

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but it's the projects responsibility to

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey all, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Not to take away from the tremendous effort that jake had done for sparc64, but it should really take more than one or two supporting developers to obtain tier

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but it's the projects responsibility to take the tierness and the intend

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:12:49PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but it's the

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Don Lewis
On 6 Jun, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As with Alpha, the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on it, not on whether it is in a particular list. Agreed, but

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:49:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: amd64 is approaching critical mass for tier-1. There are a number of developers that own amd64 hardware now, and a number of users who are asking about it on the mailing lists. Peter is finishing up the last blocking item for it

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 05:27:56PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for it for his own sake. We shouldn't keep an arch at tier 1 just to save face. Better to

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for it for his own sake. It's not that there is face to loose on alpha, it's that every time I

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for it for his own sake. It's not that there is face to loose on alpha, it's that

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote: At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking item for releases. ... As I said back then, demotion is not a terminal condition, and I would be thrilled if someone comes

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Long
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote: At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking item for releases. ... As I said back then, demotion is not a terminal condition, and I would be

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for it for his own sake. Alpha is special, with

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 05:27:56PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: : : As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 : without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 06 June 2004 16:49, Scott Long wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote: At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking item for releases. ... As I said back then,