FYI: rudimentary loader for ppcbug-based systems

Wed Oct 15 06:55:15 PDT 2003

>
>>  Clean interfaces would be the best. The ultimate is a 
>single kernel that could
>> run on all combinations of processor and firmware, the true 
>GENERIC, but I'm not 
>> sure if that's possible.
>
>I think this is the wrong way to go.  IMO, NetBSD has the 
>right idea.  Treat each
>PPC platform as a truely independent platform.  They've got 
>sys/arch/powerpc for
>the truly generic stuff.
>
>This allows them to support stuff like the BeBox, MacPPC, 
>various IBM boxen, etc.
>
>This would be, IMO, similar to how FreeBSD handles the pc98 
>case... and the
>current powerpc stuff would be split up into MI (sys/powerpc) 
>and MD (sys/powermac
>or sys/macppc maybe) portions.
>

I tend to agree that NetBSD's approach makes this separtion very clear and easy to manage (by the price of a bit of redundancy). How hard would it be to bring this into what we currently have in Free(besides the mentioned split in existing powerpc directory)?

Rafal