Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial & pci to i386.rmk

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> 
> >
> >This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk.
> 
> Why i386?  That code is not i386 specific.

It is.  Notice it's being moved from conf/i386-*.rmk, not common.rmk.

normal:  Includes normal/i386/setjmp.S

serial, pci:  Relies on grub_{in,out}{b,w,l} functions, which are only
  implemented for i386 so far.  Of course, if someone writes the powerpc
  stubs, then they could be moved to common.rmk, but they're i386-specific
  now.

> I believe we could declare SPARC broken, but keep PowerPC working.

Agreed.  I suggest we remove the conf/sparc* files, which are burdensome
(since people unaware that SPARC is broken might try to keep them uptodate)
and don't really provide any hard-to-find knowledge, and keep the
kern/*/sparc/* bits which might be useful if/when someone tries to reinstate
the port.

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