Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:59:58 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>, "McConnell, Stephen" <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com> Subject: Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1) Message-ID: <201210011659.58572.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20121001195450.GA32662@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: <5066C652.9020904@omnilan.de> <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED75E632927D3@inbmail01.lsi.com> <20121001195450.GA32662@nargothrond.kdm.org>
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On Monday, October 01, 2012 3:54:50 pm Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 23:38:33 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > > stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Merry > > > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 8:58 PM > > > To: John Baldwin > > > Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1) > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:49:36 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:58:42 am Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > accidentally I saw that mps is included in sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC, > > > but > > > > > not in sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. > > > > > Is this intended? > > > > > > > > Have you tested it on i386? From the log message, Ken (cc'd) only > > > added it > > > > on amd64 as it hadn't been tested on i386. > > > > > > That was certainly the case two years ago. Since then, though, I think > > > the LSI folks have tested it on i386. If we get reports of success > > > using it on i386, I don't see any issue with putting it in GENERIC. > > > > YES LSI has tested i386 arch on different Released FreeBSDs of 7.x, 8.x and 9.x series. > > > > That confirms it. I'll go ahead and check it into head if someone with an > i386 build environment can confirm that the driver in head builds properly > on i386. The module build is already enabled on all platforms in sys/modules/Makefile. You can just add it to i386 GENERIC in a checkout and do 'make buildworld TARGET=i386 && make buildkernel TARGET=i386' to test a cross- build. -- John Baldwin
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