From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 12:54:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E24237C502; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA60097; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:54:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA26606; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:53:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007131953.NAA26606@harmony.village.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Greg Lehey , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Vivek Khera , Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:35:58 EDT." References: Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:53:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Brandon D. Valentine" writes: : On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: : : >Without an architecture prefix/postfix/directory somewhere in the path, : >this prevents concurrent cross-builds. : It would be v.nice to have a src/sys/arch directory structure similiar : to NetBSD's since we actually have more than one architecture to : consider now. We'd already have: : src/sys/arch/i386 : src/sys/arch/pc98 : src/sys/arch/alpha : and work is under way to give us: : src/sys/arch/sparc : src/sys/arch/ppc : : If we're going to be restructuring src/sys anyway per the discussion : occuring on -current as of late, it might be product to make this change : as well and move our MD code into those directories. Don't forget arch/ia-32 and arch/ia-64. Then there's the arch/mips that I've done but which is so incomplete and bitrotted as to not be too useful to people. I think this is going to be a tough sell. People view it as an unecessary extra level of indirection. However, when I've worked with NetBSD I've not found it to be a burdon at all. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message