Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:34:32 -0500 From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool Message-ID: <v02130506ac3ea43d1601@[199.183.109.242]>
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>On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >> >> Not today :-( Maybe next .... (sometime) >> But we should not be building any new mechanisms that are incompatible with >> that goal. > > I don't see anything in the current model that inherently shuts >the door on non-Intel ports. Most of the stuff appears as either an >"option" or a "device", and those need to be specified no matter which >platform you choose to compile for. I concur. By making the selection driven by a per-architecture database scheme, we will be able to easily expand into different options for different architectures. These are the kind of design decisions that I advocate as "not incompatabile with different architectures". I don't expect us to instantly get to something that is "right" for working in any architecture, but I do think that we can begin moving in that direction. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net
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