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From: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: [FreeBSD-users-jp 74761] Re: PC98 status for FreeBSD 5.1 release
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Scott Long wrote:
> To our Japanese PC98 friends,
> 
> I apologize for sending to so many lists as I do not know the most
> appropriate one.  The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is preparing to
> tag the CVS tree for FreeBSD 5.1 Release.  However, it has become
> known to us that the PC98 port panics during sysinstall.  Unfortunately,
> we don't have enough details or resources to debug it.  We are also in
> the position that we need to tag the tree and generate the i386 cd's
> within the next few hours in order to meet the deadline for USENIX.
> So, it looks like we need to defer the release of pc98 until this can
> be resolved.  We are also in a similar situation with ia64, so it is
> likely that we will do a 5.1p1 release to cover both of these platforms.
> I personally apologize to all of you for this, and look forward to
> having pc98 be fixed as soon as possible.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> The Release Engineering Team
> 
> 

Well, things sure have changed!  Thanks to Takahashi-san and others,
PC98 looks to be fixed and will be built with 5.1-RELEASE.  Thank you
very much again.

Scott

