Subject: re: sun4u-5 boot hangs...
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/24/2000 12:29:06
   
   :    : because the ultimate plan (tm) is to eventually have just /sys/arch/sparc
   :    : with both 32-bit & 64-bit support all in here.  also because we want it
   :    : that way and have been asking for it for a year or more.
   :    
   :    This has some serious implications for the uses of MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH.  
   :    Were you planning to keep those as "sparc64" for a 64-bit-native system?
   : 
   : of course.  the only thing that really will change is the location
   : of files.  the point of the change is that >90% of the code is the
   : same still and re-sharing it is a sane thing to do.
   
   That doesn't imply sharing sys/arch/XXX.


maybe not, but it is what will happen in this case.


.mrg.