sys/conf/DEFAULT[S]

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20031008193006.GD3007 at dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
            Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> writes:
: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:07:22PM -0400, Adam C. Migus wrote:
: > 
: > Apologies for the misunderstanding.  The offer to fix, or, perhaps
: > in lieu of this thread, enhance /usr/sbin/config still stands if
: > you'd like.  It might be fun to take the suck out of
: > /usr/sbin/config if people think it's warrented.  :-)
: 
: There's on old thread in the -current archives about dealing with
: mips and variations of an architecture (in the same sense that pc98
: is a variation of i386). It would be cool to have that nailed down
: and have a config(8) that groks it. If you're working on config,
: maybe you can solve that problem too? :-)

i386 is very special in that it has so few variants (pc98, sequent and
roadrunner are the only ones I know, and outside of japan, all are
rare).  mips has boatloads, as does power pc, arm and sh[345].  alpha,
amd64, sparc, sparc64 are very regular beasts in comparison.

Also, it is more than a config issue.  There will need to be some
kernel source changes too.  About 1/4 of the pc98 ifdefs could go away
if the MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH split were done more correctly for i386.

Warner