Re: [Tack-devel] all of Ack-5.5 under Linux

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:30:23AM +0200, David Given wrote:
> Yup. In fact, 5.5 had the same divide, it's just it put both types of thing
> in the same mach directory --- this is why there's a mach/minix (containing
> the OS-specific bit) and a mach/i386 (containing the CPU-specific bit). I
> split these into two directories because I found it confusing.

BTW this is exactly an example of reuse, mach/i386 in Ack-5.5
is for "Xenix on i386" and  mach/minix relies on the same CPU-support
but implements a different interface to the OS kernel. So for clarity
it should have been split into at least 3 pieces:

 cpu/i386 (to be documented as: used by: for plat/Xenixi386, plat/Minixi386)
 plat/Xenixi386 (to be documented as: using: cpu/i386)
 plat/Minixi386 (to be documented as: using: cpu/i386)

Regards,
Rune