[1871] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NetBSD/powerpc and NetBSD/arm ports of AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Mon May 24 09:25:36 1999
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
To: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
> Oh, one other difference I noted: you used "arm_nbsd1" and "#if
> defined(__arm__)" while I used "arm32_nbsd1" and "#ifdef __arm32__".
> It's just much simpler for packaging, etc., if the sysnames can be
> derived from ${MACHINE_ARCH} values.
This is something we went over with the FSF. The names `arm32',
`pc532', etc. are all specific to NetBSD, and should generally not
pervade other code which uses different naming conventions. In
particular, *all* other ARM-based OSes use __arm__.
