From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 20 10:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13298 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13269 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24470; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:58:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA13959; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:58:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:58:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199802201858.LAA13959@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Yarema" Cc: "Nate Williams" , Subject: Re: MACHINE vs. MACHINE_ARCH In-Reply-To: <010f01bd3e31$1031a310$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com> References: <010f01bd3e31$1031a310$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE aren't the same thing. > > > >How are they different? > > On OpenBSD, and I presume NetBSD, MACHINE might be "amiga" but MACHINE_ARCH > would be "m68k" or something like that. Just because the are the same on > Intel boxes don't mean they are gonna be the same when you install FreeBSD > on your toaster. So, why didn't the CSRG make a distinction with machines that had the same CPU 'architecture' but different HW? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message