Re: CVS commit: src/sys

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:18:08PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 07:29:26PM +0200, Martin S. Weber wrote:
> > Reminds me of http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ -- remember
> > sparc is "tier 2" aka "Go fix it yourself if you don't
> > hurt me"...
> 
> Well, but the fix is simple in this case: turn it into a MD macro like
> MAXDMAP() and allow other archs to provide a const implementation, while
> sparc pays the price and has to fetch it from a variable.
> 

or just hack it brutally

( cvs rdiff -u -r1.308 -r1.309 src/sys/arch/sparc/sparc/machdep.c )
 -- who cares about hacks in tier 2 architectures when the netbsd
goals (http://www.netbsd.org/about/system.html - "well designed")
only apply to tier 1 ports? (the goals page should be updated anyways
to exclude examples such as EISA, TurboChannel, the alpha or pmap port
etc)

/me shrugs