From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 9 21:59: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nuit.iteration.net (nuit.iteration.net [198.92.249.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2B737B401; Thu, 9 May 2002 21:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by nuit.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8250011B571; Thu, 9 May 2002 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:57:01 -0700 From: "Michael C. Wu" To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Dillon , obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. Message-ID: <20020510045701.GA34750@nuit.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C. Wu" References: <200205071940.g47Jehl84130@apollo.backplane.com> <20020507131314.B29014@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020507131314.B29014@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:14PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled: | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: | > the way for us to allow natively compiled multi-architectural support. | > e.g. consider this: | > cc -ABI4 ... | > cc -ABI5 ... | > cc -ABILinux ... | > cc -ABIOpenBSD ... | Honestly, why do we have this need? It seems to fall into the "it would | be nice"; but seldomly used. Vendor imported code (e.g. KAME(sigh..), USB, possibly 1394, cardbus, possibly some userland important tools and libraries) would have little or no diffs from the original vendor's code.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message