On Fri Aug 27 10, Alexander Best wrote: > On Fri Aug 27 10, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:50:01PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The attached patch changes FreeBSD/x86 back to FreeBSD/i386 on i386 and > > > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64. > > > > > > Comments welcome! I'll commit it in by the weekend if there is no > > > objection on this. > > Change to FreeBSD/x86 was on purpose. And, since the same loader > > can boot both i386 and amd64 kernels, I consider the current state > > more logical. > > yeah. i think jhb wanted this to happen. the old thread for this can be found > here [1].
oops. forgot the reference. :( it's [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org/msg70613.html ...also r205662 seems to have introduced x86. the commit message might be interesting. cheers. alex > > there's also a PR with a patch submitted by myself which will make use of the > keyword 'x86' throughout the whole loader(8) code. > > the PR number for that is 147120. would be nice if someone would commit the > patch. that is of course if in fact it has really been decided that for code > that's being shared between amd64 and i386 the keyword 'x86' shall be used > consistently. > > however recently i've seen quite some commits to HEAD which make me believe > that the developers (most of all jhb) want to make heavy use of the 'x86' > keyword. > > cheers. > alex > > > > > Later, kernel reports its architecture explicitely. > > > > -- > a13x -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
