On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52:27PM +0900, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn >> <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Author: nwhitehorn >>> Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010 >>> New Revision: 205014 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014 >>> >>> Log: >>> Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms, >>> for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the >>> COMPAT_IA32 >>> option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI >>> parts >>> of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support >>> big-endian platforms. >> >> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily >> interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like >> "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful. > > There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list. > > This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided > valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.
$ cd /usr/src/sys $ wcfind . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/COMPAT_FREEBSD32/COMPAT_32BIT/g' really doesn't take much developer time. I can whip up the patch for review. -- -- David (obr...@freebsd.org) _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
