--- wikisrc/ports.mdwn 2018/11/11 16:27:47 1.19 +++ wikisrc/ports.mdwn 2018/11/11 16:31:56 1.20 @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ x86_64 |I |[[amd64]] (Can also run i38 ## Various ways of denoting ports and CPUs -When discussing ports and CPUs, there are two concepts each of which have three ways of being named. Strictly, the word port refers to the value shown by "uname -m", and typically corresponds to a directory under src/sys. build.sh supports aliases, which are passed as if they were a port, but expand to a port and a cpu (MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH); an example is evbearmv7hf-el which expands to the evbarm port and earmv7hf cpu. +When discussing ports and CPUs, there are two concepts, each of which have three ways of being named. Strictly, the word port refers to the value shown by "uname -m", and typically corresponds to a directory under src/sys. build.sh supports aliases, which are passed as if they were a port, but expand to a port and a cpu (MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH); an example is evbearmv7hf-el which expands to the evbarm port and earmv7hf cpu. [[!table data=""" concept | /usr/share/mk variable | uname | build.sh @@ -150,4 +150,4 @@ port | MACHINE | uname -m | build.s cpu | MACHINE_ARCH | uname -p | build.sh -a """]] -Additonally, there are things referred to as ports which are notably different but are not actually "uname -m" values. One is xen, which is a system architecture variant of i386/amd64, and aarch64, which is CPU type variant of evbarm. +Additonally, there are things referred to as ports which are not actually "uname -m" values, but are notably different than what would be expected from that port name. One is xen, which is a system architecture variant of i386/amd64, and aarch64, which is CPU type variant of evbarm.