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Subject: Re: hw.machine vs hw.machine_arch
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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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