ah right, and I've even run it so I should remember.

but the general point I was trying to make may still apply.
is arcdiag intended to be included in a binary distribution?
if so, it'd be nice to have it be outside of arch/*.
if not, then this isn't an issue.

-Chuck


On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:00:01PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
>  > it'd be nice if userland sources were not stored in the kernel directories.
>  > I'd like to eventually get to the point where we have identical userlands
>  > on (for example) all the mipsel platforms, so that they can share binary sets.
>  > this gets harder if random programs are off in the kernel directories.
>  > how about just putting it in usr.sbin/arcdiag?  the Makefile can skip
>  > that directory for architectures where it doesn't make sense.
> 
> arcdiag is not a userland program.  It's a standalone program, run
> directly by the ARC BIOS.  It cannot be run from userland.
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>