Subject: re: sun4u-5 boot hangs...
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/23/2000 21:21:38
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, matthew green wrote:

:    : 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.  This has been done before; see
powerpc (where even the boot method is very similar between ports), mips,
m68k, take your pick.

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