From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 12:47:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0666337B405; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C4543F3F; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1OKlJ1o043780; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1OKlJWk000847; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1OKlJBn000846; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:19 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Mike Barcroft Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] Merging NOTES (was: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES) Message-ID: <20030224204719.GD661@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224112323.A61907@espresso.bsdmike.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030224112323.A61907@espresso.bsdmike.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:23:23AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > David O'Brien writes: > > I can now create a sparc64 LINT kernel with the patches at > > http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sp64notes.diff. The essence of this > > patch is to split sys/conf/NOTES into NOTES, NOTES.bt, NOTES.ext2fs, > > NOTES.ps2, NOTES.raid, and NOTES.syscons. Each /sys//conf/Makefile > > now looks like: > > Counter-proposal: > Merge all sys/*/conf/NOTES and sys/conf/NOTES into one file, and add > CPP parsing. Good one. There's another thing that we didn't touch and that may be related: modules. sys/modules/Makefile now has all the complexity and in- accuracy to deal with compiling modules. It would be nice to come up with something that can be used for module selection as well. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message