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Subject: Re: RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/?
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On Monday 14 November 2005 12:47 am, Xin LI wrote:
> On 11/13/05, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the explaination.
>
> BTW. Shall having arch/foo for new libraries be considered preferred,
> if they have MD code?

I personally hate it.  libpthread etc drive me crazy because they use 
this.
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