Re: More than just the compiler, the FS tools ...

[David Brownlee <david%mono.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> In the longer term, however, I suggest that it would be a good strategy
> to steer the FS tools in a direction that allowed them to be built and
> used on foreign hosts.
> 
        Most certainly - 'disklabel' currently has code that installs
        bootblocks on some (i396) architectures. I think this has been
        described as 'just plain wrong'.

        The first stage that needs to be done is splitting out the
        disklabel handling code from the ports - so I can for example
        mount a SunOS disk on a NetBSD/i386 machine. Before that
        happens we need to cope with big/little endian ffs on a given
        machine.

        Actually, from my viewpoint just being about to mount a DOS
        formatted Jaz disk on my NetBSD/sparc box would be real nice, but
        I'm upgrading to current in preparation for poking around at that
        :)

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