From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 20:17:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED6F16A40F; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:17:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: from what-creek.com (what-creek.com [66.111.37.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A9A43D86; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:17:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: by what-creek.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id BE85A140EC01; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:17:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:17:06 +0000 From: John Birrell To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20061004201706.GB82080@what-creek.com> References: <20061004035533.GA76969@what-creek.com> <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com> <20061004.105441.1649768370.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061004.105441.1649768370.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, joseph.koshy@gmail.com, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed elf header changes which affect PPC and ARM X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:17:22 -0000 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:54:41AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > What's the advantage of moving all the machine specific defines as > well? So that one arch can host the DTrace client for another target arch. DTrace needs to understand the relocations, so it needs access to the defines for all arches, even though they are machine specific. -- John Birrell