Subject: Re: ARM port organisation
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/18/2001 16:12:59
Hi Ben,

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010217213511.02812008@3am-software.com> you write:
> >I have one small request.  Since everything is coming from
> >arm32 (nee arm26), it would be nice to keep the conf.c
> >in sys/arch/arm/arm and not have them vary.  It would make
> >having a shared arm32 base kit much easier.
>
> Hmm.  A slight awkwardness of this is that I (foolishly) followed the
> majority of ports when picking major numbers for NetBSD/arm26, rather than
> following arm32.  *sigh*

Could the transition to ELF be a good starting point to also change these
major/minor numbers? I.e. most ppl will then either do a complete
reinstall or an update anyway ... do /dev/ will be rebuild.

Cheers,
Reinoud