From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 8 10: 5:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AF337B5B7 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 10:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA92291; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 10:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA51476; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 10:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007081706.KAA51476@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39673B7B.F4DEF75B@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:06:45 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Jul-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > This must pass through -arch before any implementation. Remember, not > every committer reads current. The kernel hackers do since they are running current. :) > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> sys/ >> ${MACHINE}/ - stay mostly the same, the directories under here >> mirror the sys/ directories. E.g. MD bootstrap >> code would go in the boot/ subdir >> boot/ - formerly sys/boot/${MACHINE} >> boot/ - just MI boot code now. Depending on portability >> of ARC, possibly move boot/arc under >> sys/alpha/boot > > Don't touch boot. Nothing in the bootstrap is used by the kernel, and > there's just a few kernel files included by the bootstrap (wrongly, > IMHO). It's made by buildworld instead of buildkernel. Ideally, it > should be taken out of sys/ altogether. I disagree. The bootstrap is not used from userland, but is what loads the kernel. The kernel uses it to get started in other words. You don't type /boot/loader after the system is loaded, for example. > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message