From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 2: 3:39 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 2BFA837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C7D43F85 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1OA3a1o040813; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1OA3a3U021315; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1OA3aRQ021314; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:36 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES Message-ID: <20030224100336.GB21088@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224120037.D4403-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030224023118.GD67312@dragon.nuxi.com> <3E59E8F4.884C9160@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E59E8F4.884C9160@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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-). ia64 is designed to promote migration. If bt(4) has no PC legacy stuff, it's very well possible that such a device may end up in an ia64 eventually (I'll do it just to make my point :-) > 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. Isn't that's like voting for spam because people can install filters? or like an opt out mailing list: remove yourself if you think you're exceptional? Isn't it also more related to kernel config files where we list devices when we want to add support for them, not to list devices we don't want to support? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message