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/...

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52:27PM +0900, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 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.

  $ cd /usr/src/sys
  $ wcfind . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/COMPAT_FREEBSD32/COMPAT_32BIT/g'

really doesn't take much developer time.

I can whip up the patch for review.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)