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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:31 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> maintaining arch things across multiple operating systems is boring me so i'd |
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> like to start moving to profiles that outline arch-specific details |
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> for example: |
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> default-linux/parent: |
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> ../base |
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> default-linux/sh/parent: |
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> .. |
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> ../../arch/sh |
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> arch/sh/parent: |
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> .. |
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> arch/parent -> none |
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> all of the arch-specific details would be moved out of base/ and into arch/ |
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> (like altivec, sse, sse2, mmx, etc...) and then they can be unmasked in the |
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> respective arch/$arch/ subdir |
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> this would be for 2007.1+ profiles and we can leave the old things in place |
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> until we phase out 2007.0 and older completely |
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This is actually something I was already planning on working on setting |
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up. To avoid conflicting with the current profiles, I was planning on |
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making a new profile tree. I wasn't planning on using it for 2007.1's |
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official media, though, but rather just /experimental stuff, since I'd |
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rather get much more testing on it before it goes "live" as the default. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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