Subject: Re: NetBSD/hpcarm snap code
To: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2001 12:14:45
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:05:46PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Well a board is more than the sa11x0 pheripherals ... so there still is a
> bunch of stuff in sys/arch/arm32 but still.... hmmm....
>
> moving the stuff in sys/arch/arm sounds logical to me but only if all the
> rest of the board specific stuff or hpcarm stuff is in the arm32 branch...
> the SA11x0 can then be the processor only and MD stuff can then be called
> using functions.
Please repeat after me -- the current notion of the "arch/arm32" directory
should go completely away, in favor of properly named port directories.
(See my previous message).
The current arrangement, in addition to encouraging bad coding practice,
is just a complete nightmare from a release engineering perspective (ever
wonder why the arm32 port never had any nice install tools? This is one
of the reasons...)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>