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

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 11/14/05

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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    M. Warner Losh wrote:
    > In message: <a78074950511130858n73f50708jabfbb18fda1af84c@mail.gmail.com>
    > Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> writes:
    > : 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).
    >
    > This discussion is 10 years too late. There would be a huge amount of
    > repo-churn that would happen. Also, the inevitible bikeshed happens
    > about totally reorganizing the kernel, which inevitably ends
    > inconclusively.
    >
    > I'd personally love to see it, but it would be extremely disruptive.
    >
    > Warner

    Well, it should have been done with alpha was added in 1998, so it's
    only 7 years too late =-) If we were to ever restart the repo like we
    did with ncvs for FreeBSD 2.0, it could be done. Otherwise, it is
    too much pain and churn.

    Scott
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