On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:56:15PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:22 PM -0800 3/24/04, Julian Elischer wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > >> > > > Uh, what about basic functionalty on Sparc64 and Alpha? > > > >who cares? > > I want the platform to be taken seriously. It is going to be a > major challenge to the FreeBSD project to have multiple "tier 1" > platforms, and it isn't good to hear a cavalier "Who Cares?" so > early in handling that challenge. > I'm not so sure that Julian was being cavalier. After watching Julian, Dan, and David repeatedly ask for a sparc64 (and alpha) person to help implement KSE, I suspect Julian was really asking "Who cares enough about sparc64 to help implement the missing pieces to get TLS moving forward?" >From where I sit on the side lines, this looks like a catch-22. David doesn't want to spend the time and effort to upgrade binutils without the commitment of implementing TLS on all tier-1 platforms. Julian and Dan don't want to make that commitment to all platforms until they had the opportunity to implement it on at least i386, which can't be done with a new toolchain. -- SteveReceived on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 16:44:55 UTC
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