From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 19:34:56 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 0384737B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7F443E4A; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:34:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0052.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.52] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18dj00-0004WT-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:34:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3E374B7C.C17250E1@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:33:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Benno Rice , Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a46eb5c7999bca3ed3262bbcf1eca6c3aea8438e0f32a48e08350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 Mike Barcroft wrote: > Benno Rice 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