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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:53:54 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels 
Message-ID:  <200007131953.NAA26606@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:35:58 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131330170.27135-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131330170.27135-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131330170.27135-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> "Brandon D. Valentine" writes:
: On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
: 
: >Without an architecture prefix/postfix/directory somewhere in the path,
: >this prevents concurrent cross-builds.
: It would be v.nice to have a src/sys/arch directory structure similiar
: to NetBSD's since we actually have more than one architecture to
: consider now.  We'd already have:
: src/sys/arch/i386
: src/sys/arch/pc98
: src/sys/arch/alpha
: and work is under way to give us:
: src/sys/arch/sparc
: src/sys/arch/ppc
: 
: If we're going to be restructuring src/sys anyway per the discussion
: occuring on -current as of late, it might be product to make this change
: as well and move our MD code into those directories.

Don't forget arch/ia-32 and arch/ia-64.  Then there's the arch/mips
that I've done but which is so incomplete and bitrotted as to not be
too useful to people.

I think this is going to be a tough sell.  People view it as an
unecessary extra level of indirection.  However, when I've worked with 
NetBSD I've not found it to be a burdon at all.

Warner


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