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Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> A) Do nothing...document in the handbook that if your machine is |
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> 64-bit, you *must* select the mips64 sub-profile. (I don't like this |
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> because some folks may be confused as to why everything still works |
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> just fine with the mips profile, and/or they will just skim over that |
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> and keep going) |
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> B) Similar to A, except ship stages without the profile set. That |
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> way, folks really are stuck until they set the proper profile. (I |
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> don't like this because they could still be confused and set the mips |
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> profile) |
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> C) Make default-linux/mips/ provide all the 64-bit stuff and get rid |
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> of the mips64 sub-profile, since all of the SGI machines we support |
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> can run 64-bit kernels if you so choose (ip22 is the only system that |
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> supports a 32-bit kernel at this time). |
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> D) (Kumba's idea here...) Have machine specific profiles, e.g. |
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> default-linux/mips/ip22, default-linux/mips/ip32, etc. (This could |
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> be really useful because it would allow us to do some other machine |
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> specific voodoo in the profile). |
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I quite like D here. Removes any confusion as to what profile you want, |
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and could then be combined with B so that people don't end up with the |
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wrong profile set anyway. |
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