Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:13:38 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sys/conf/DEFAULT[S] Message-ID: <20031009.051338.97397249.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20031008193006.GD3007@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20031008212302.T4729@gamplex.bde.org> <51574.204.254.155.35.1065640042.squirrel@mail.migus.org> <20031008193006.GD3007@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:07:22PM -0400, Adam C. Migus wrote:
: >
: > Apologies for the misunderstanding. The offer to fix, or, perhaps
: > in lieu of this thread, enhance /usr/sbin/config still stands if
: > you'd like. It might be fun to take the suck out of
: > /usr/sbin/config if people think it's warrented. :-)
:
: There's on old thread in the -current archives about dealing with
: mips and variations of an architecture (in the same sense that pc98
: is a variation of i386). It would be cool to have that nailed down
: and have a config(8) that groks it. If you're working on config,
: maybe you can solve that problem too? :-)
i386 is very special in that it has so few variants (pc98, sequent and
roadrunner are the only ones I know, and outside of japan, all are
rare). mips has boatloads, as does power pc, arm and sh[345]. alpha,
amd64, sparc, sparc64 are very regular beasts in comparison.
Also, it is more than a config issue. There will need to be some
kernel source changes too. About 1/4 of the pc98 ifdefs could go away
if the MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH split were done more correctly for i386.
Warner
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