From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Jun 11 11:12:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9737137B771; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p61-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.62]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id DAA05065; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:12:51 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3943D6E1.84EF5F40@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:13:53 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader References: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > > more generic features. > > It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra words to > detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, etc. but that > doesn't invalidate the basic idea. Huh... duh! Of course! In this case, I object to the way the word works. We *do* "detect" i386 and alpha. The code ought to do something similar to what the i386 and alpha words do. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message