Re: RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/?

From: Daniel Eischen (deischen_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/13/05

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    Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:46:09 -0500 (EST)
    To: delphij@delphij.net
    
    

    On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Xin LI wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Is there any reason that we have sys/i386 and not sys/arch/i386? I
    > think the latter is a lot cleaner (and libpthread, etc. already has
    > their arch/[arch] directory on the other hand).

    FreeBSD started out as 386 only. It probably just wasn't envisioned
    that we'd have more than just one or two archs.

    I think this issue has been brought up in the past, and if it causes
    a lot of pain or repo-bloat, they'll probably be some resistance.

    -- 
    DE
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