From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 16:18: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id C5FD637B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:18:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:18:08 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030128161808.A5579@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030125153116.A25743@FreeBSD.org> <20030128.233856.71130419.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030128120830.A81856@FreeBSD.org> <20030128225335.GB537@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128151749.A831@FreeBSD.org> <20030128235528.GA844@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128160936.A4252@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030128160936.A4252@FreeBSD.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:09:36PM -0800 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Juli Mallett [ Data: 2003-01-28 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ] In short, platform provides machinery for a single port of FreeBSD which represents exactly one MACHINE_ARCH to support a numbe of different hardware platforms - MACHINE - under a unified system, without interfering with how anything works, and without doing it in a convoluted/imho-backwards way. There is not a way to mix MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH within a single port, as it is now. You have to duplicate things like pc98 does. -- Juli Mallett AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message