Subject: Re: NetBSD/hpcarm snap code
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2001 11:13:01
Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org> writes:
> On 16 Feb 2001, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> > bjh21@netbsd.org (Ben Harris) writes:
> > > They're more equivalent to the IOMD or Footbridge, whose support
> > > code would presumably live in the riscpc and cats directories
> > > respectively.
> > 
> > IOMD may be RPC-specific, but Footbridge support, in a correct world,
> > shouldn't be CATS specific.
> > 
> > There are many more ARM boards in existance than the CATS that use
> > Footbridge, eh?
> 
> Yes, but are they otherwise sufficiently different from the CATS as to
> justify their own MACHINE?

I dunno.  It may be a matter of firmware.

If not, the CATS port would be misnamed, if it were 'arch/cats' or
similar that indicated that it was specific to CATS.  8-)


cgd