Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:33:45 +0900 (JST) From: KATO Takenori <kato@nendai.nagoya-u.ac.jp> To: marcel@xcllnt.net Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hw.machine vs hw.machine_arch Message-ID: <200109131133.f8DBXoO84286@tatu.nendai.nagoya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20010913014953.B1403@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200109122218.f8CMIst43283@harmony.village.org> <200109130617.f8D6Hit95540@harmony.village.org> <20010913014953.B1403@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject: Re: hw.machine vs hw.machine_arch (was: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot Makefile)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:49:53 -0700
> It was committed 3 years ago (kern_mib.c -r1.16). The commit log
> doesn't say much, but there may have been a discussion on one
> of the mailinglists.
As a result of the discussion, definitions of them are:
machine_arch: cpu type (i.e., i386, alpha, powerpc etc.)
machine: subtype of machine_arch (i.e., i386 and pc98)
As far as I remember, the definition of machine/machine_arch was
imported from NetBSD.
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