From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 18:46:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE7C16A41F for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2460343D46 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.13.5/8.13.5/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id jADIk9IC027163; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:46:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:46:09 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: delphij@delphij.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:46:32 -0000 On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Xin LI wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any reason that we have sys/i386 and not sys/arch/i386? I > think the latter is a lot cleaner (and libpthread, etc. already has > their arch/[arch] directory on the other hand). FreeBSD started out as 386 only. It probably just wasn't envisioned that we'd have more than just one or two archs. I think this issue has been brought up in the past, and if it causes a lot of pain or repo-bloat, they'll probably be some resistance. -- DE