On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ben Harris wrote:
> > In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010217213511.02812008@3am-software.com> you write:
> > >I have one small request.  Since everything is coming from
> > >arm32 (nee arm26), it would be nice to keep the conf.c
> > >in sys/arch/arm/arm and not have them vary.  It would make
> > >having a shared arm32 base kit much easier.
> >
> > Hmm.  A slight awkwardness of this is that I (foolishly) followed the
> > majority of ports when picking major numbers for NetBSD/arm26, rather than
> > following arm32.  *sigh*
> 
> Could the transition to ELF be a good starting point to also change these
> major/minor numbers? I.e. most ppl will then either do a complete
> reinstall or an update anyway ... do /dev/ will be rebuild.

Unfortunately not on two counts:

1: arm26 is already ELF and always has been.  Thus, there's no transition
for us.

2: It's not necessary to do a complete reinstall to use ELF binaries.  You
can perfectly reasonably have a mixed a.out/ELF system.  In any case, you
don't need to rebuild /dev usually, and doing so is liable to mess up
anything that's been customized in there.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>