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Date:      Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:46:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        delphij@delphij.net
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0511131338040.11952-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <a78074950511130858n73f50708jabfbb18fda1af84c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Xin LI wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any reason that we have sys/i386 and not sys/arch/i386?  I
> think the latter is a lot cleaner (and libpthread, etc. already has
> their arch/[arch] directory on the other hand).

FreeBSD started out as 386 only.  It probably just wasn't envisioned
that we'd have more than just one or two archs.

I think this issue has been brought up in the past, and if it causes
a lot of pain or repo-bloat, they'll probably be some resistance.

-- 
DE




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