Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:52:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MACHINE_ARCH for boot loader Message-ID: <slrni8cnu4.lu1.saper@saper.info> References: <4C770BB9.2070900@delphij.net> <201008270934.56323.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Dnia 27.08.2010 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> napisał/a:
> On Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:50:01 pm Xin LI wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch changes FreeBSD/x86 back to FreeBSD/i386 on i386 and
>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64.
>>
>> Comments welcome! I'll commit it in by the weekend if there is no
>> objection on this.
>
> As others have noted, the 'x86' is on purpose, and I would rather it continue
> to do that rather than this change.
Not sure about it, the loader and boot block are 32-bit code, aren't they?
(That actually made me to hack some patches to make ficl 64-bit, but that's
another story).
So I think i386 is better designation for pure 32-bit code I think.
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<< Marcin Cieslak // saper@saper.info >>
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