Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:31:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <200006111831.LAA14709@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:13:53 %2B0900." <3943D6E1.84EF5F40@newsguy.com>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > > > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > > > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > > > more generic features. > > > > It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra words to > > detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, etc. but that > > doesn't invalidate the basic idea. > > Huh... duh! Of course! > > In this case, I object to the way the word works. We *do* "detect" i386 > and alpha. The code ought to do something similar to what the i386 and > alpha words do. That would make sense. Note that 'vmware' is a subset of 'i386' for whatever that's worth. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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