Any reason why the NetBSD approach to this problem won't work? IMHO, the meta-port should drive the derived ports. The static parts of the system are radically different between the different mips platforms.
Using the endian.h stuff as an example: src/sys/arch/arc/include/endian.h is just "#include <sys/endian.h>" src/sys/arch/arc/include/endian_machdep.h is #define _BYTE_ORDER _LITTLE_ENDIAN #include <mips/endian_machdep.h> and src/sys/arch/mips/include/endian_machdep.h is a bunch of #defines for assembler. sys/endian.h looks like: #define _LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234 /* LSB first: i386, vax */ #define _BIG_ENDIAN 4321 /* MSB first: 68000, ibm, net */ #define _PDP_ENDIAN 3412 /* LSB first in word, MSW first in long */ #include <machine/endian_machdep.h> ... #include <sys/cdefs.h> #include <sys/types.h> typedef u_int32_t in_addr_t; typedef u_int16_t in_port_t; __BEGIN_DECLS uint32_t htonl __P((uint32_t)) __attribute__((__const__)); uint16_t htons __P((uint16_t)) __attribute__((__const__)); uint32_t ntohl __P((uint32_t)) __attribute__((__const__)); uint16_t ntohs __P((uint16_t)) __attribute__((__const__)); __END_DECLS ... (more macros/functions) In this case, there's very little duplication of effort. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message