Subject: Re: new sysctl: hw.cpu_isa
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/13/2000 10:38:45
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:44:52AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:

 > > Well, first of all, sun4u doesn't belong under "sparc" :-)
 > 
 > In 32bit mode, it would.  There's also sun4d (unsupported by NetBSD).

No, it wouldn't.  It's not supported by the "sparc" port, but rather
by the "sparc64" port, even in 32-bit mode, and thus the "sparc64" port
would be responsible for reporting the ISA.

 > [...]
 > >  > 	sparc64	sun4u
 > > 
 > > Here, I think you want sparcv8+ (or whatever the "ultrasparc, but only
 > > 32-bit safe" is called) and sparcv9.
 > 
 > No, only sparcv9.  Or maybe sparcv10 too, if that is US-III ?

See my comment above.

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