From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 13:30:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEB537B401; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3B543F3F; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0TLUpMW071848; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0TLUpVL005817; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0TLUpnW005816; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:30:51 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Juli Mallett Cc: Benno Rice , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030129213051.GA5799@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030129062558.GB1715@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <1043821970.648.60.camel@localhost> <20030129074647.GD1715@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <1043828377.648.67.camel@localhost> <20030129100411.GA3272@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129115542.A79257@FreeBSD.org> <20030129204744.GC5416@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129125530.A83790@FreeBSD.org> <20030129211904.GB5740@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129132833.A86377@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030129132833.A86377@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:28:33PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > > I thought the idea was to have machine be usable for platforms, so > > as to have the mapping machine->MACHINE. This makes the keyword > > unusable for handling the pc98 case. I guess I was confused (now > > you know who needs the summary :-) > > Well, I like what jhb has suggested, of fully moving to a new set of > keywords for config(8) to describe these sorts of things, rather than > having machine+platform, having arch+platform, but keeping machine for > those things that want it. Does that work for you? Yes. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message