[ros-dev] RE: [ros-svn] [ion] 19196: - Add new configuration option "SARCH" todefine the sub-architecture. Examples include i386-xbox, ppc-be/le (little/bigendian), or any other sub-types of the specified ARCH.

[Alex Ionescu]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:

>>From: ion at svn.reactos.com
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>>- Add new configuration option "SARCH" to define the 
>>sub-architecture. Examples include i386-xbox, ppc-be/le 
>>(little/bigendian), or any other sub-types of the specified ARCH.
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>This means we will have to build, test and distribute different .isos for
>different sub-architectures, 
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That day will come one day or another.

>only to save a few bytes in the
>freeldr/setupldr binaries.
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More then "few", and it wasn't only for Freeloader. I am a man of 
vision; I thought of this and its long-term effects. I'm sure they'll 
become apparent in a year or two when we start supporting other 
architectures and sub-architectures.

> I implemented calling of sub-architecture
>specific code via a table of function pointers precisely to be able to keep
>one binary (per architecture).
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Not that I mind the design (which is very well made) but there as many 
"anti-"FAT"-binaries" arguments as there are 
"anti-segregated-binaries"... and I don't want to start a war on which 
design ReactOS is going to support. But since you did most of the recent 
work on Freeloader and the XEN/XBOX ports, I consider you Freeloader's 
current maintainer and your choice is final to me.

>Please revert.
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Done, thanks for the clear communication on your disagreement.

>Gé van Geldorp.
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

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