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Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms".
From: Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net>
To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
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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>

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