Date: 29 Jan 2003 11:21:50 +1100 From: Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <1043799709.648.14.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <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> <20030128161808.A5579@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:18, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> [ 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. I'd also like to point out that PowerPC will benefit greatly from this. PowerPC platforms vary wildly in how they do various things (incl. endianness in some cases) and so this provides a much cleaner mechanism to select a set of platform "quirks" than trying to do what i386/pc98 do. -- Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Nx6dXjRwWofFmQkRAkeYAJ9eQqZ5ru0vz+n75KAv3x1vv+9pMQCeLNG9 4Y6NaXistwRfsjGF3gjXj0c= =4TF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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