From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 4:56:14 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 40BF337B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DEF43F93 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:56:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1OCuA3Y087681; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:56:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:55:21 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030224.055521.11262802.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030224060517.GA9757@dhcp53.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030224040250.GA19558@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030224052909.GA6020@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224060517.GA9757@dhcp53.pn.xcllnt.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <20030224060517.GA9757@dhcp53.pn.xcllnt.net> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : Take for example powerpc or mips, do we need to distinguish between : little-endian and big-endian kernels? Do we need a selection based : on platform (rather than just architecture)? Take pc98 as our queue and we know the answer is 'yes' Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message