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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:54:18 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r289336 - head/sys/mips/conf
Message-ID:  <1444866858.51093.3.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2D=OxxTbjnpdMXmsOATkdWZKD-F2qmqVZ-viVvN3OgP%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 23:26 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 14 October 2015 at 21:10, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: emaste
> > Date: Wed Oct 14 21:10:05 2015
> > New Revision: 289336
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289336
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) kernel config file
> 
> Because I've received a couple of private followups on this commit
> I'll reply here to avoid the same discussion being spread across
> multiple threads.
> 
> There's a suggestion to have this config include OCTEON1 (on which
> this is based) and then set a couple of ident/options. I didn't take
> that approach here because OCTEON1 includes a whole bunch of devices
> not relevant to the ERL, which has no PCI bus and doesn't support
> AHCI, RAID controllers, PCI NICs, etc. In my opinion the device is
> small enough that we don't want to bloat the kernel with devices that
> cannot be used. To do so while still including OCTEON1 we'd end up
> with a config file that's just about as long as this, full of
> nodevice
> / nooption lines.
> 
> Perhaps it makes sense to pull some common parts out into a
> MIPS.common (e.g. options, USB devices, etc.) and include that from
> OCTEON1, ERL, and other MIPS configurations?
> 

We did something like that recently for arm, with std.arm and std.armv6
files that have all the devices and options that are common to each of
those architectures.

-- Ian




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