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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