On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Matt Thomas wrote:
- how sysctl hw.machine_arch should be handled
Right now it return the MACHINE_ARCH the executable was built
for via an ELF note.
I'd expect sysctl hw.something to report information about the
hardware that's in use, or perhaps the hardware that the kernel
was built for. It seems weird to report information about how the
currently running executable was built.
Perhaps we need different sysctl nodes to report the kernel's
idea of MACHINE_ARCH and the userland executable's idea of
MACHINE_ARCH.
[lots of information]
Please could you document this somewhere. Some possible places
that come to mind are sys/arch/README, sys/arch/*arm*/???,
distrib/notes/*arm*/install.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
