From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 9 22:13:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E0C37B407 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 22:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28067 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 05:13:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 May 2002 05:13:55 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4A5DsF40911; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:13:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020510045701.GA34750@nuit.iteration.net> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 01:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Michael C. Wu" Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Matthew Dillon , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-May-2002 Michael C. Wu wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:14PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled: >| On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >| > the way for us to allow natively compiled multi-architectural support. >| > e.g. consider this: >| > cc -ABI4 ... >| > cc -ABI5 ... >| > cc -ABILinux ... >| > cc -ABIOpenBSD ... >| Honestly, why do we have this need? It seems to fall into the "it would >| be nice"; but seldomly used. > > Vendor imported code (e.g. KAME(sigh..), USB, possibly 1394, > cardbus, possibly some userland important tools and libraries) > would have little or no diffs from the original vendor's code.. Erm, all the changes so far aren't in API's, but rather changing the size of types like time_t. The same KAME code would compile fine. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message