Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:13:53 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <3943D6E1.84EF5F40@newsguy.com> References: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > > more generic features. > > It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra words to > detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, etc. but that > doesn't invalidate the basic idea. Huh... duh! Of course! In this case, I object to the way the word works. We *do* "detect" i386 and alpha. The code ought to do something similar to what the i386 and alpha words do. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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