On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:16:01PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > I'm with Ig on this issue, I think we should fix the problems with merged
> > ports rather than give up on that idea and split up the merged ports.
> 
> I'm not completely opposed, but if this split happens, the building
> environment should be enhanced so that installation media only can be (at
> least semi-, that is on the same MACHINE_ARCH) cross-built.

I agree -- this needs to be done anyway.  I feel it should be possible to
generate a complete NetBSD release (all architectures) on one machine.  I
certainly don't intend ever to use an arm26 machine to build a complete
arm26 distribution.

> Pleasenot. You're aware that we're preparing an amigappc port?
> Same devices (with the exception of system clock, of course) as Amiga86k,
> but different bootloader and different userland and different pmap?

It seems to me that the right way to handle that is the same way the stuff
that's common between sun3 and sun4, or between macppc and mac68k, or
between vax and pmax and alpha is done:  create a sys/dev/amiga
subdirectory and shove all the common Amiga stuff in there.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>