Subject: re: how stable is 1.5.2 on sparc64
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/01/2001 00:05:03
   
   > Are you building a 1.5 kernel?  Don't -- switch to -current.  1.5 is
   > obsolete on sparc64.  Too many bugs fixed in current.
   
   Is this still valid, i.e. should I really switch to -current.
   Or has the stability of sparc64 port improved much since 1.5?


there are dozens of reasons that sparc64 is better in -current than
in the 1.5 series.  it's too hard for us to port back the code as
a lot of it depends on various other kernel changes that are quite
pervasive in some cases.  unless you have a good reason not to,
people probably should run -current kernels, even if they do use a
1.5* userland.


.mrg.