From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 13:59:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D950737C8A2; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:59:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09BE626; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id NAA17748; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <396E2D97.643CDE47@cup.hp.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:59:03 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Greg Lehey , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Vivek Khera , Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels References: <200007131953.NAA26606@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > 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. With 7 or 8 MD directories, an arch subdirectory is not too much to ask for. I can imagine that people wonder if and when we're going to reach that count and until then don't see the need to reorganize. With currently 3 MD directories and at least 3 coming up (including ia64), I'd say that now is probably the best time to introduce the subdirectory... My $0.02 -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message