From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 04:13:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FEC16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 04:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1042043FDF for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 04:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h99BDaAD077436; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 05:13:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:13:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20031009.051338.97397249.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net From: "M. Warner Losh" 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: stefan@fafoe.narf.at cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sys/conf/DEFAULT[S] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:13:48 -0000 In message: <20031008193006.GD3007@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Marcel Moolenaar 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