From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 21: 4:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD43F37B401; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1227B43F75; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0224.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.224] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18e6rl-0000iN-00; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:03:58 -0800 Message-ID: <3E38B162.3E20D8D9@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:00:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". References: <20030129013537.GB1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128174259.A10304@FreeBSD.org> <20030129021406.GD1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128182013.A13422@FreeBSD.org> <20030129025124.GG1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128190158.A15778@FreeBSD.org> <20030129044548.GI1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128205737.A22274@FreeBSD.org> <20030129051853.GJ1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128213716.A24203@FreeBSD.org> <20030130044846.GB5754@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4ca5ebdc08ef223b42ecc6423c5ddf54f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:37:16PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > > I've made a note that you don't think my way is optimal. I do, and > > that's that, at this point. No black magic, no convoluted config > > files, etc. Go deal with the ODE config and Mach's configuration > > files, I have. Or NetBSD's. Or OpenBSD's. At this point, I am > > convinced that the platform keyword is the least offensive and most > > productive way of doing all of this, and so on, being someone who > > has worked with more backwards methods, and being the person who > > had to deal with this first, and came up with something that suits > > the two groups who need it most (the pc98 mistake is probably near > > impossible to correct, due to the historical nature), MIPS, and > > PowerPC. > > Juli, you need to convince many more than just yourself that this is a > good approach for something that is so over-reaching and will be > something we *all* have to live with. Right now you don't have much of a > buy-in for this, and we haven't even seen public support for it from > Peter "(the config(8) maintainer)". I still think a PC98 conversion would be compelling. But in any case, isn't "the first person to a working PPC port" kind of an overriding argument, one way or the other? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message