broke too many assumptions makde by other parts of the source tree,
and the strategy and how it was supposed to work was never discussed
on tech-userlevel, nor was it applied consistently (to all ARM ports
and to other ports which have common MACHINE_ARCH code, such as MIPS,
m68k, powerpc).
Verified to complete a full "make build" on cats, dnard, evbarm,
and netwinder.