On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Todd Whitesel wrote:

: As much as everyone wants to abandon the old monolithic arm32 port, it should
: be acknowledged that it did have one very nice feature:
:
: The userland was _absolutely_ identical, and the kernels could all be built
: trivially from any of the machine types. So if you built one of the machine
: types with 'make snapshot', you automatically built _all_ of them.
:
: What steps (if any!) are being taken to preserve this effort-saving feature?

A decoupling of install media/kernels and userland build is on my personal
to-do list.  This would allow, for instance, a single m68k userland build,
modulo some possibly separately built binaries (or, developer concensus to
build all m68k-based MD userland binaries on all m68k platforms).

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