At 09:46 PM 8/15/2000 +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 12:44:40PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >
> >  > I'd like to propose that the definition and use of
> >  > <machine/foo.h> be changed/modified.  Currently
> >  > machine points to the port specific include directory
> >  > and then there's a <$arch$/foo.h> which points to the
> >  > machine archtecture files.
> >
> > The problem, of course, is kernel source files that do, e.g.:
> >
> > #include <machine/bus.h>
> >
> > Those are port-specific, not arch-specific.
> >
> > I think what we really want is:
> >
> > #include <arch/foo.h>
> >
> > and
> >
> > #include <machine/foo.h>
> >
> > Userland sources should be changed to use <arch/foo.h>, kernel sources
> > must still be able to do <machine/foo.h>.
> >
> > The <machine/...> API should not be accessible from userland, i.e. the
> > symlink in /usr/include should go away, in favor of the <arch/...> link.
>
>What about binaries that are in one machine and not the other, calling
>ioctls for hardware that is only available in one or a few of the machines
>in an arch? (e.g., some stuff used by Xamiga).

The ioctls will fail.  But the user land will be identical whether the build
was done on mac68k or amiga or ...
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