[1939] in NetBSD-Development
Re: sparc port
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Feb 11 00:41:10 2000
To: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Feb 2000 16:55:59 EST."
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:40:56 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
>> Use arch directories. Move the relevant file from os/netbsd to
>> arch/i386_nbsd1 and add your file to arch/sparc_nbsd1.
> We killed arch/ and platform/ in favor of os/ between 8.2 and
> 8.3. There's only support for os/ in the 8.3 makefiles.
Yes, and the theory at that time was that we would reintroduce arch
directories (I guess platform directories would be fine too, but we're
kind of moving away from relying on platform for anything) in
source-sipb for files which need to differ between different hardware
platforms of an os.
