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

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 13 10:46:32 PST 2005


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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