On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Benno Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:18, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > * De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-28 ] > > > [ Subjecte: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". ] > > > > > > In short, platform provides machinery for a single port of FreeBSD > > > which represents exactly one MACHINE_ARCH to support a numbe of > > > different hardware platforms - MACHINE - under a unified system, > > > without interfering with how anything works, and without doing it in > > > a convoluted/imho-backwards way. There is not a way to mix MACHINE > > > and MACHINE_ARCH within a single port, as it is now. You have to > > > duplicate things like pc98 does. > > > > I'd also like to point out that PowerPC will benefit greatly from this. > > PowerPC platforms vary wildly in how they do various things (incl. > > endianness in some cases) and so this provides a much cleaner mechanism > > to select a set of platform "quirks" than trying to do what i386/pc98 > > do. > > Perhaps if we could see PC98 converted to this design the advantages > would become obvious.
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