Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:54:14 +0200 From: Jaworowski Rafal-ARJ004 <Rafal.Jaworowski@motorola.com> To: "'Alex Zepeda'" <zipzippy@sonic.net>, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FYI: rudimentary loader for ppcbug-based systems Message-ID: <E087F7025D7E494B8015119695CEDB4C0197220C@zpl02exm01.mpsc.mot.com>
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> >> Clean interfaces would be the best. The ultimate is a >single kernel that could >> run on all combinations of processor and firmware, the true >GENERIC, but I'm not >> sure if that's possible. > >I think this is the wrong way to go. IMO, NetBSD has the >right idea. Treat each >PPC platform as a truely independent platform. They've got >sys/arch/powerpc for >the truly generic stuff. > >This allows them to support stuff like the BeBox, MacPPC, >various IBM boxen, etc. > >This would be, IMO, similar to how FreeBSD handles the pc98 >case... and the >current powerpc stuff would be split up into MI (sys/powerpc) >and MD (sys/powermac >or sys/macppc maybe) portions. > I tend to agree that NetBSD's approach makes this separtion very clear and easy to manage (by the price of a bit of redundancy). How hard would it be to bring this into what we currently have in Free(besides the mentioned split in existing powerpc directory)? Rafalhome | help
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