Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:06:45 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Message-ID: <200007081706.KAA51476@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <39673B7B.F4DEF75B@newsguy.com>
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On 08-Jul-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> This must pass through -arch before any implementation. Remember, not
> every committer reads current.
The kernel hackers do since they are running current. :)
> John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> sys/
>> ${MACHINE}/ - stay mostly the same, the directories under here
>> mirror the sys/ directories. E.g. MD bootstrap
>> code would go in the boot/ subdir
>> boot/ - formerly sys/boot/${MACHINE}
>> boot/ - just MI boot code now. Depending on portability
>> of ARC, possibly move boot/arc under
>> sys/alpha/boot
>
> Don't touch boot. Nothing in the bootstrap is used by the kernel, and
> there's just a few kernel files included by the bootstrap (wrongly,
> IMHO). It's made by buildworld instead of buildkernel. Ideally, it
> should be taken out of sys/ altogether.
I disagree. The bootstrap is not used from userland, but is what
loads the kernel. The kernel uses it to get started in other words.
You don't type /boot/loader after the system is loaded, for example.
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org
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