From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Jan 9 13:19:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2772D37B69B for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DC19657525; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:18:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:18:58 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the abi & hardware support Message-ID: <20010109151858.A1597@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at> <20010108191234.A88168@peorth.iteration.net> <20010109121444.B77750@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010109121444.B77750@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.] -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message