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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:14:37 -0800
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r293068 - in head/etc: . mtree
Message-ID:  <56947DAD.80106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <F67B40B5-6154-4098-93ED-EFEE6110FFF0@bsdimp.com>
References:  <201601030432.u034W6en043633@repo.freebsd.org> <D06026D1-5F5E-4D8A-8882-063BBFBF2903@FreeBSD.org> <20160111221614.GC79262@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <F67B40B5-6154-4098-93ED-EFEE6110FFF0@bsdimp.com>

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On 01/11/16 19:11, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 06:41:33PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>>> On 03 Jan 2016, at 05:32, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> Author: imp
>>>> Date: Sun Jan  3 04:32:05 2016
>>>> New Revision: 293068
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/293068
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Add libsoft to the tree, just like lib32.
>>> Hmm, are there going to be more of these "multilib" things? :)
>> We'll want to do something about supporting hard float on MIPS.  Over
>> there it may be more of a TARGET_ARCH thing, but libsoft might be useful.
> It isn’t quite a TARGET_ARCH on mips either. I’d love to work with you
> to use this stuff  MIPS turns out to be a harder nut to crack with this stuff
> because it marks the different types of binaries differently and it looks harder
> to parse.
>
> For amv6 it is more of a transition thing, but I wanted to do it something
> approaching “correct” so that we could leverage it for MIPS.
>
>> We've also got a libcheri in CheriBSD and will eventually need to do a
>> lib64 as we explore the switch from CHERI-when-requested to
>> CHERI-by-default.
> We should definitely chat about this. There’s some easy ways to mark the CHERI
> binaries that are easier than others which would be quite helpful.
>
> So we should chat about how this would be helpful on MIPS, and not just
> CHERI-mips...
>
> Warner
>

For things that are a MACHINE_ARCH, do we want a convention of 
lib/${MACHINE_ARCH}? That seems like it would make it easily scalable 
and easier to predict than a lot of lib*. For things that aren't quite a 
MACHINE_ARCH, it's more complicated of course.
-Nathan



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