Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 09:10:47 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: sbruno@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r266273 - in stable/10/sys: amd64/conf conf i386/conf Message-ID: <53778A07.7000003@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1400289486.1535.1.camel@bruno> References: <201405162255.s4GMt1GR077643@svn.freebsd.org> <5376AFFA.3010902@freebsd.org> <1400289486.1535.1.camel@bruno>
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On 05/16/14 18:18, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 17:40 -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> I missed the original commit of this, but why doesn't this code work on
>> non-x86 systems? QEMU works perfectly fine on other architectures.
>> -Nathan
>
> I am only supporting this on x86 systems, if there is someone who is
> using this actively on ${ARCH} then I see no reason to enable it there.
>
> sean
>
But why restrict it? Tier-2 systems basically mean "no guarantees" and
that's fine. But there doesn't seem to be any reason to make code
platform-specific that is not inherently so.
-Nathan
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