Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:26:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: procfs problems |
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> First of all, who cares if it started there. > > Problem with architecture is that we may want to have: port: sparc; > architecture: sun4c/sun4m/sun4d. On the other hand, probably > architecture on the SPARC could be named something else.
I'd be quite happy with "architecture" being a multiple-part field. This is an issue for the ARM as well. So you could have "arch: sparc/sun4m" or "arch: arm/arm4". Conceivably the m68k people might want to distinguish Amigas from Ataris or something, and the Alpha guys might want LCA/CIA/whatever. It's only really the Intel case where the hardware is so heterogeneous that "i386" is all you need to describe the system.
phil
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