From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAnwK-0008T3-Dk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:13:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81CAVYU029867; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:10:31 GMT Received: from ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.131]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81CAVTY016661 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:10:31 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from cpc5-cmbg1-5-0-cust40.cmbg.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.16.40]:1152 helo=[192.168.10.10]) by ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.151]:465) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1EAnw7-0001hR-56 (Exim 4.51) for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:12:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4316F047.5050500@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:12:55 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] profiles References: <42F7492B.5080306@gentoo.org> <20050811200505.GH30724@puck.ch> <42FBCF8C.7090103@gentoo.org> <20050812064720.GI30724@puck.ch> <42FC96AB.6010200@gentoo.org> <20050813101402.GL30724@puck.ch> <431478DB.6090404@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <431478DB.6090404@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: spb42@hermes.cam.ac.uk X-Archives-Salt: 4b702172-9167-41dd-bb9e-5b71bf5015df X-Archives-Hash: ae9b217caca5403198d6876f213db1ec Stephen P. Becker wrote: > A) Do nothing...document in the handbook that if your machine is > 64-bit, you *must* select the mips64 sub-profile. (I don't like this > because some folks may be confused as to why everything still works > just fine with the mips profile, and/or they will just skim over that > and keep going) > > B) Similar to A, except ship stages without the profile set. That > way, folks really are stuck until they set the proper profile. (I > don't like this because they could still be confused and set the mips > profile) > > C) Make default-linux/mips/ provide all the 64-bit stuff and get rid > of the mips64 sub-profile, since all of the SGI machines we support > can run 64-bit kernels if you so choose (ip22 is the only system that > supports a 32-bit kernel at this time). > > D) (Kumba's idea here...) Have machine specific profiles, e.g. > default-linux/mips/ip22, default-linux/mips/ip32, etc. (This could > be really useful because it would allow us to do some other machine > specific voodoo in the profile). I quite like D here. Removes any confusion as to what profile you want, and could then be combined with B so that people don't end up with the wrong profile set anyway. -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list