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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--=-0Cmm9e30VkR1sMY04fPt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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". ] >=20 > 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.=20 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. --=20 Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> --=-0Cmm9e30VkR1sMY04fPt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Nx6dXjRwWofFmQkRAkeYAJ9eQqZ5ru0vz+n75KAv3x1vv+9pMQCeLNG9 4Y6NaXistwRfsjGF3gjXj0c= =4TF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0Cmm9e30VkR1sMY04fPt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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