From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 17:25:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B39237B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD43C43F85; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2959C9C54; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:13:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:13:22 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Benno Rice Cc: Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030128201322.A34456@espresso.q9media.com> 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> <1043799709.648.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1043799709.648.14.camel@localhost>; from benno@jeamland.net on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:21:50AM +1100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project 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 Benno Rice writes: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:18, Juli Mallett wrote: > > * 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. > > 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. Perhaps if we could see PC98 converted to this design the advantages would become obvious. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message