From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 07:20:01 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 80EF016A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B49C43FF5 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@migus.org) Received: from garple.migus.org ([68.55.83.94]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003100914195901600a8kqie>; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:19:59 +0000 Received: by garple.migus.org (Postfix, from userid 80) id 54F208FC30; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 204.254.155.35 (SquirrelMail authenticated user adam) by mail.migus.org with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51676.204.254.155.35.1065709199.squirrel@mail.migus.org> In-Reply-To: <20031009.051338.97397249.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20031008212302.T4729@gamplex.bde.org><51574.204.254.155.35.1065640042.squirrel@mail.migus.org><20031008193006.GD3007@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20031009.051338.97397249.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:19:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adam C. Migus" To: "M. Warner Losh" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: stefan@fafoe.narf.at cc: arch@freebsd.org cc: marcel@xcllnt.net 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 14:20:01 -0000 M. Warner Losh said: > 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 > If someone wants to step up and coordinate efforts with me on this? It sounds reasonable to address in parallel. Is there anyone who'd volunteer to work with me on the non-config end or at least provide direction and expertise? I don't mind being the coordinator so as to minimize the person(s) time in dealing with the issue. -- Adam - (http://people.migus.org/~amigus/) Migus Dot Org - (http://www.migus.org/)