On 22 August 2012 14:09, Tijl Coosemans <t...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 21-08-2012 17:04, Dan McGregor wrote: >> My solution is certainly fairly hacky, I just took inspiration from >> NetBSD. I wanted to see if it could be done. While I was there I did >> identify several files that should be common between i386 and amd64, >> such as exec.h. >> >> Since reading your email I started looking at the x86 common code, >> and have made some more code common; specifically asm.h ans >> ucontext.h. I'll be putting that on github shortly. >> >> Since it does look like tijl hasn't committed anything since March, >> I would like to co-operate and see what his plans were. The idea of >> merging the i386 and amd64 headers into a common area seems like a >> better idea to me. > > For now my goal was to merge headers that can be used by user code so > it can be compiled with -m32. Eventually, I think it would be nice to > merge all headers and install x86/ as machine/ for both i386 and amd64. > That would make the x86 headers similar to powerpc and mips headers > (and arm when 64bit support is added there). > > I think I still have one or two (untested) patches. I'll have a look at > it during the weekend. >
That sounds very handy. I didn't know where you got to, so I've been plugging away at the same goal for the last couple of days. Is there anything specific I could help you with? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
