From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 20:33: 8 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 074A937B401; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9564B43FB9; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0U4WvIx008549; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0U4VefS008548; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:31:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:31:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Benno Rice , Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030130043139.GA5754@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Mike Barcroft , Benno Rice , Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030125153116.A25743@FreeBSD.org> <20030128.233856.71130419.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030128120830.A81856@FreeBSD.org> <20030128225335.GB537@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128151749.A831@FreeBSD.org> <20030128235528.GA844@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128160936.A4252@FreeBSD.org> <20030128161808.A5579@FreeBSD.org> <1043799709.648.14.camel@localhost> <20030128201322.A34456@espresso.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128201322.A34456@espresso.q9media.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Benno Rice writes: > > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:18, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > * De: Juli Mallett [ Data: 2003-01-28 ] > > > [ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ] > > > > > > In short, platform provides machinery for a single port of FreeBSD > > > which represents exactly one MACHINE_ARCH to support a numbe of > > > different hardware platforms - MACHINE - under a unified system, > > > without interfering with how anything works, and without doing it in > > > a convoluted/imho-backwards way. There is not a way to mix MACHINE > > > and MACHINE_ARCH within a single port, as it is now. You have to > > > duplicate things like pc98 does. > > > > I'd also like to point out that PowerPC will benefit greatly from this. > > PowerPC platforms vary wildly in how they do various things (incl. > > endianness in some cases) and so this provides a much cleaner mechanism > > to select a set of platform "quirks" than trying to do what i386/pc98 > > do. > > Perhaps if we could see PC98 converted to this design the advantages > would become obvious. I think this is an EXCELLENT idea! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message