At 10:36 AM -0400 2/5/98, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
>> Dan> It looks like powermac is indeed going to need its own
>> Dan> tree.
>>
>> Dan> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Kazuki Sakamoto and I talked about it yesterday, and got
>> same conclusion.  We also thought that dev/powerpc should
>> contains processor specific code like m68k or mips,
>> dev/{bebox,powermac,etc.} should contain architecture
>> specific ones.
>
>(I assume you mean arch/powerpc etc., not dev/powerpc above).

Yep.

>Anyway, the intended directory structure (as discussed with Jason and JT
>at the time) was to separate cpu-specific code from architecture specific
>code and create a separate directory tree under sys/cpu for the former and
>leave sys/arch for the latter.  The current arch/m68k and arch/mips would be
>moved completely to sys/cpu.  The current arch/powerpc would be moved in
>part to sys/cpu/powerpc, leaving the OpenFirmware device support in
>sys/arch/powerpc.

So, OF drivers themselves in arch available to other platforms but the guts
- like the VM, etc - in cpu.  I'll take a nice long look at it as we pick
out what portions of arch/powerpc can be used for arch/powermac.  OF
drivers are just about out of the question now.

As an irrelevant aside, within the next week I expect to finish polishing
the changes to ofwboot...I'll test them out a bit and commit them to the
powermac CVS server once I'm confident they work for other people to poke
at them.

Dan


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