From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 1:43:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2D237B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FF743FBD for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0041.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.41] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18nF92-0007N9-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:43:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3E59E8F4.884C9160@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:42:12 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224120037.D4403-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030224023118.GD67312@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a410a5bd9de588a40d2ef3e8d01a7423873ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > I doubt bt(4) will work on sparc64, PowerPC, or IA-64. So do people want > all that's in NOTES.bt (and that's a lot of docs) to be duplicated three > times in sys/{alpha,i386,pc98}/conf/NOTES or split out as I have?? What they probably *want* is for bt(4) to work on sparc64, PowerPC, or IA-64. 8-) 8-). What they should probably *get* is per machine exceptions, via "nodevice", which are then correctable on a case by case basis, instead of having to be corrected globally for all the platforms all at once. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message