Subject: Re: Sparc port names (was Re: Memory leak?)
To: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 02/12/1996 10:48:09
On Sat, 10 Feb 1996 14:45:14 -0500 (EST) 
 Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

 > Actually, the intent is to merge the sun4m port into the sun4/sun4c port, 
 > so one kernel will boot on any sun4/4c/4m sparc machine. Thus 
 > NetBSD/sparc seems like a fine name for now, since there are no 
 > sun4d/sun4u ports yet.

Well, arguably, it should be NetBSD/sunsparc, but changing it now would 
be ... dumb :-)  One of these days, we could probably abstract the CPU 
chip stuff and make a sys/arch/cpu/sparc .. :-)

*duck*

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