Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:33:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <3E374B7C.C17250E1@mindspring.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> <20030128201322.A34456@espresso.q9media.com>
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Mike Barcroft wrote: > Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> writes: > > 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. That's quite the likeable idea. The alternative is that we end up with mixed legacy code and new code, as people don't care about bringing the PC98 "up to date" so long as it still works. It's always better to have "one true way" to do things: it makes it easier to document. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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