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Xin LINov 13, 2005 8:57 am 
Daniel EischenNov 13, 2005 10:46 am 
Garrett WollmanNov 13, 2005 11:16 am 
M. Warner LoshNov 13, 2005 9:32 pm 
Scott LongNov 13, 2005 9:45 pm 
Xin LINov 14, 2005 12:47 am 
Takahashi YoshihiroNov 14, 2005 2:00 am 
Bruce EvansNov 14, 2005 4:02 am 
Peter WemmNov 14, 2005 12:20 pm 
Subject:RFC: Why not move kernel MD code to sys/arch/?
From:M. Warner Losh (im@bsdimp.com)
Date:Nov 13, 2005 9:32:08 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-arch

In message: <a780@mail.gmail.com> Xin LI <delp@gmail.com> writes: : Is there any reason that we have sys/i386 and not sys/arch/i386? I : think the latter is a lot cleaner (and libpthread, etc. already has : their arch/[arch] directory on the other hand).

This discussion is 10 years too late. There would be a huge amount of repo-churn that would happen. Also, the inevitible bikeshed happens about totally reorganizing the kernel, which inevitably ends inconclusively.

I'd personally love to see it, but it would be extremely disruptive.

Warner