From owner-freebsd-arm Mon Jan 1 19: 6: 6 2001 From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 19:06:04 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from db.wireless.net (adsl-gte-la-216-86-194-70.mminternet.com [216.86.194.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA3537B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA03189 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Sender: dbutter@db.wireless.net Message-ID: <3A5145CC.5EEE71CE@wireless.net> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:06:52 -0800 From: Devin Butterfield X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: name for sys/ References: <20010101174554.A29489@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > Mike Smith suggested `arm32', but upon reading > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/ : > > There is really no such thing as `an arm32.' The first ARM processors > (ARM2 and ARM3) were designed by Acorn, and had both 26 bit > constraints and poor MMUs. These processors are supported by > NetBSD/arm26. Acorn later spun off ARM with Apple and VLSI. ARM's > CPUs (6, 7, 8, 9 and StrongARM) were fully 32-bit and are supported > by NetBSD/arm32. > > I am back to wondering what to call this beast. I don't think we should > carry forward `arm32' if it is an artificial name. GNU autoconf refers to > it simply as `arm', but I kinda like `strongarm' since that make it > perfectly clear what CPUs we are supporting. > > Opinions? I would agree with David that `strongarm' would be the better choice since there is no question regarding what's supported. It's always smart to make things self-documenting. -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message