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/...

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

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.

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