Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:45:12 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: delphij@gmail.com, delphij@delphij.net, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/? Message-ID: <43782468.2090609@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20051113.213041.53817299.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <a78074950511130858n73f50708jabfbb18fda1af84c@mail.gmail.com> <20051113.213041.53817299.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <a78074950511130858n73f50708jabfbb18fda1af84c@mail.gmail.com> > Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> writes: > : 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). > > This discussion is 10 years too late. There would be a huge amount of > repo-churn that would happen. Also, the inevitible bikeshed happens > about totally reorganizing the kernel, which inevitably ends > inconclusively. > > I'd personally love to see it, but it would be extremely disruptive. > > Warner Well, it should have been done with alpha was added in 1998, so it's only 7 years too late =-) If we were to ever restart the repo like we did with ncvs for FreeBSD 2.0, it could be done. Otherwise, it is too much pain and churn. Scott
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