Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:53:28 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205080942410.16895-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <89017.1020785836@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > We cannot easily compile for two native APIs if we cannot have two > different set of 'sys/*' and 'machine/*' files since a lot of the > types we want to change size on are defined in these files. Not exactly, because #ifdefs can handle this perfectly. Performing diffs on different files is a more simple task though. > I would therefore like to propose that we do something like > the following: > > Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/include > Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/abi4 > Remove src/sys/sys/* Sounds good, except #includes in various headers may look fuzzy after that, but this is acceptable. Although, this scheme doesn't account data parameters passed to VFS_MOUNT() call. Definitions of these structures lives in fs/*fs.h files. How do you plan to deal with it ? > This should put a good bit of infrastructure in to make current and > future API/ABI implementations simpler and more structured. > > I guess a way to sum this up is that it will put all API/ABI's on > equal footing. With this change none of them will be any more > "native" than any other API/ABI. Agreed. -- Boris Popov http://rbp.euro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the messagehelp
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