Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:18:26 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change to kernel+modules build approach Message-ID: <3F3C6D22.8050305@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814.223212.102654511.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030814100248.GB88037@sunbay.com> <XFMail.20030814110100.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030814.223212.102654511.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <XFMail.20030814110100.jhb@FreeBSD.org> > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes: > : > : On 14-Aug-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > : > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:10:19AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > : >> Luoqi Chen wrote: > : > [...] > : >> >On the other hand, all modules should create all the opt_*.h files > : >> >it needs when built individually. Add opt_ddb.h to nullfs's Makefile > : >> >should fix the breakage. > : >> > > : >> Our kernel build system isn't set up to handle passing config options > : >> to modules. Various solutions to this have been proposed, but nothing > : >> has appeared yet. In 5.x, we document that modules will not work with > : >> PAE. > : >> > : > How does the below look? This is basically a more generic implementation > : > of Luoqi's idea, but for -CURRENT: > : > : I would prefer something far more radical that would involve moving > : all the module metadata to sys/conf (i.e. removing sys/modules) and > : building all the modules based on a single kernel config file. > > Does that mean that we're abandoning the idea that modules will work > with all kernels? I don't disagree with the metadata move, since it > is duplicated in two places now and allows for some more interesting > subsettting, but I'm concerned that our third party ISVs will need to > generate N different modules for the system... > > Warner I can tell you first hand that this is painful. However, in the case of PAE, it's somewhat neccessary since certain fundamental types change size. I can envision solutions for this, but I'm not sure if they are less painful than just dealing with multiple module builds. Scotthome | help
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