Re: Preparation for creating netbsd-7 branch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:45:40PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > - different MACHINE_ARCH should be used for armv4/v6/v7 or not
> 
> Absolutely.  You can't run an earmv7 on earmv6 or before.  You default
> to just earm but you lose efficiency and performance.  An earmv7hf
> userland is much faster on an armv7 cpu than a earm{,hf} userland.  

I don't think it has to change MACHINE_ARCH, at least on the sysctl
level. I consider this the same as target CPU on i386.

Joerg