Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:15:12 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net Cc: jmallett@freebsd.org, benno@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030130.101512.83728709.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030129204744.GC5416@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030129100411.GA3272@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030129115542.A79257@FreeBSD.org> <20030129204744.GC5416@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
: Alpha has multiple platforms, but it has not been made explicit.
: pc98 is an alternate platform for i386. And we have PowerPC and
: mips.
Keep in mind that for mips you have two different architectures:
mipsel and mips(eb). I keep harping on this because you cannot run
mipsel binaries on mipseb kernels (please ignore that some mips cpu
can, in theory do this, since no free OS has climbed that mountain).
You'll need different binaries (packages) for mips and mipsel.
This has implcations for the kernel as well.
BTW, netbsd doesn't have a 'platform' at all. Their config files have
things like:
machine arc mips
in them. That just says "make the machine symlink to src/sys/arch/arc
and also make a mips symlink to src/sys/arch/mips."
Warner
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