On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Sure. But someone has to do that, and I made a decision that it was > better to commit /something/ than for everyone involved to run out of > time and nothing to be committed. > Well, arguably at the time of commit you had somebody who was at least somewhat motivated (i.e. ray@) to do it and you were in good position to request it's to be done before the commit is allowed to go through. None of which is probably true today, so we are stuck in this position with no real plan on how/when it's going to be resolved. > eg - a lot of ARM and MIPS work. > > So yes, I'd love to see it fixed. I mean, heck, I fix up other stuff > and I completely forgot that this was still split. But geom_ulzma / > geom_gzip actually got us a whole lot of MIPS (and maybe some ARM) > users, so I believe it was worthwhile. > That's fine and dandy but on the flip side it also means there are some users now to be distracted and possibly confused once things hopefully get straightened out and one of those goes away. I am pretty sure there are some build scripts that would need to be adjusted and kernel/boot configurations to be corrected by the said users and it's not a good thing. Have few of those myself, no reasons to believe I am unique. Anyway, I'll probably shut up now. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
