On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:20:00PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:

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> BTW, you don't mean mips.  You mean sgi.  mips is a cpu architecture, not

> a machine.

This is an issue that has always confused me.  It is obvious that the

binaries for OpenBSD must be different for each cpu architecture, but

why are they sometimes different for machines that have the same cpu

architecture?
For example, there are different binaries for OpenBSD on hp300 and

mvme68k machines, even though they both have a Motorola 680x0 cpu.

There are also different binaries for zaurus and armish machines, even

though they both have an ARM cpu.  Why?
Is it because these machines have limited memory, and there is only room

for those drivers that are needed by the specific machine, or is there

something more subtle going on?