Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:18:58 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the abi & hardware support Message-ID: <20010109151858.A1597@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20010109121444.B77750@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0800 References: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at> <20010108191234.A88168@peorth.iteration.net> <20010109121444.B77750@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0800, David O'Brien scribbled:
| On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:12:34PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > I think that we will support whatever is at hand with the developers.
| > There is no need for constant bickering over what should be supported.
| > (Hint hint, bikeshed stops here. :-) )
|
| To some degree there is -- maintainability and cleanliness of code.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Right. I thought that was implicit in FreeBSD work
bearing the FreeBSD name. :)
| Also I will not support a toolchain that produces anything other than
| ELF. So if a particular Mac model needs a COFF kernel, I most likely
| won't help in making that happen.
agreed. Maintaining only ELF keeps the trouble and porting difficulty
to a minimum.
[snip parts that we both agree on.]
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