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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 5 Sep 1995 05:44:15 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 75 Message-ID: <42go3f$mol@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> <MICHAELV.95Sep1235458@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:909 comp.os.linux.advocacy:18927 In article <MICHAELV.95Sep1235458@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >And each one has a different, twisted maze of a source tree. Just FYI, the linux source tree looks like the following: caa32:/usr/src/linux> find . -name '*' -type d -print ./fs ./fs/ext ./fs/msdos ./fs/proc ./fs/minix ./fs/isofs ./fs/nfs ./fs/ext2 ./fs/xiafs ./fs/umsdos ./fs/hpfs ./fs/sysv ./init ./kernel ./lib ./mm ./include ./include/linux ./include/linux/modules ./include/asm-generic ./include/asm-i386 ./include/asm-mips ./include/asm-alpha ./include/asm-m68k ./include/asm-sparc ./net ./net/inet ./net/unix ./ipc ./drivers ./drivers/net ./drivers/block ./drivers/char ./drivers/scsi ./drivers/sound ./modules ./arch ./arch/i386 ./arch/i386/boot ./arch/i386/boot/compressed ./arch/i386/boot/tools ./arch/i386/mm ./arch/i386/math-emu ./arch/i386/ibcs ./arch/i386/kernel ./arch/alpha ./arch/alpha/boot ./arch/alpha/boot/tools ./arch/alpha/lib ./arch/alpha/mm ./arch/alpha/kernel ./arch/sparc ./arch/sparc/kernel ./arch/sparc/mm ./arch/sparc/lib ./arch/mips ./arch/mips/boot ./arch/mips/mm ./arch/mips/kernel Each architecture has it's own directory in the master source tree. But the source shares much of the kernel source. The arch directories just contain code that is machine dependent. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu