svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/...

[Rui Paulo]

On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010
>> New Revision: 205014
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014
>>
>> Log:
>>  Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86  
>> platforms,
>>  for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the  
>> COMPAT_IA32
>>  option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from  
>> MI parts
>>  of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to  
>> support
>>  big-endian platforms.
>
> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
> interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
> "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.

There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list.

This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided  
valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.

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Rui Paulo