Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/... Message-ID: <20100312172811.GA31991@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <3F878223-7A35-4A27-9DA8-92239C635EC1@FreeBSD.org> References: <201003111449.o2BEn6QY069179@svn.freebsd.org> <e71790db1003120436u34370f40x64a72da41893a39a@mail.gmail.com> <3F878223-7A35-4A27-9DA8-92239C635EC1@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52:27PM +0900, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn >> <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Author: nwhitehorn >>> Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010 >>> New Revision: 205014 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014 >>> >>> Log: >>> Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms, >>> for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the >>> COMPAT_IA32 >>> option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI >>> parts >>> of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support >>> big-endian platforms. >> >> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily >> interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like >> "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful. > > There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list. > > This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided > valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's. $ cd /usr/src/sys $ wcfind . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/COMPAT_FREEBSD32/COMPAT_32BIT/g' really doesn't take much developer time. I can whip up the patch for review. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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