On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 10:50:42AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:35:44PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > I just added mods to all of the floppy/miniroot Makefiles to explicitly
> > specify the desired endianness of the fs. Thus the scripts will DTRT if
> > you're making a big-endian boot disk on a little-endian machine.
> > But there's a call to newfs in src/distrib/miniroot/Makefile. What should
> > we do here?
> > Does anything use it,
> yes. Amiga, for one. I think most of {hp300, sun3, atari, mac68k}, too.
...
> hm. hm. The suggestion seems right to me.
> 
> In the short term, the "${ARCHDIR}/Makefile.inc"'s can specify the desired
> endianness in their NEWFSOPTS assignment. 
> 
> Already existing: 
> 
> ../amiga/miniroot/Makefile.inc:NEWFSOPTS?=      -c 64
> ../atari/miniroot/Makefile.inc:NEWFSOPTS?=      -i 3052 -c 60
> ../mac68k/miniroot/Makefile.inc:NEWFSOPTS?=     -i 8192
> ../pmax/miniroot/Makefile.inc:NEWFSOPTS?=       -c 64
> 
> adding -B be for all but pmax (here: -B le) should do the job.

I've added this for the time being.

 	Ignatios