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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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