Subject: Re: ARM port organisation
To: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/18/2001 15:19:42
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ben Harris wrote:
> > In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010217213511.02812008@3am-software.com> you write:
> > >I have one small request. Since everything is coming from
> > >arm32 (nee arm26), it would be nice to keep the conf.c
> > >in sys/arch/arm/arm and not have them vary. It would make
> > >having a shared arm32 base kit much easier.
> >
> > Hmm. A slight awkwardness of this is that I (foolishly) followed the
> > majority of ports when picking major numbers for NetBSD/arm26, rather than
> > following arm32. *sigh*
>
> Could the transition to ELF be a good starting point to also change these
> major/minor numbers? I.e. most ppl will then either do a complete
> reinstall or an update anyway ... do /dev/ will be rebuild.
Unfortunately not on two counts:
1: arm26 is already ELF and always has been. Thus, there's no transition
for us.
2: It's not necessary to do a complete reinstall to use ELF binaries. You
can perfectly reasonably have a mixed a.out/ELF system. In any case, you
don't need to rebuild /dev usually, and doing so is liable to mess up
anything that's been customized in there.
--
Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>