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Hi Rafal

> 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)?

 Not that easy, I don't think: it's more of a top-level directory (e.g. pc98) rather
than a powerpc subdir. Which is another reason why I don't really want to go down
the NetBSD path.

later,

Peter.