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Subject: Re: Should Xen be a sub-arch or a build option?
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"Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> writes:
> What if, rather than putting ifndef XEN in 10 or 15 files, I instead
> added "native" to options.i386 and marked all those files as "native"
> in files.i386  and then put "native" in DEFAULTS. That would allow me
> to simply add "nooption native" in a XEN kernel config and disable
> their compilation without touching the files themselves.

or "legacy" perhaps, rather than "native".  It would also be useful for
anyone trying to run FreeBSD on a so-called "legacy-free" machine that
doesn't have a PC-compatible BIOS (many thin clients for instance)

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