Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:52:37 -0400 From: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid driver build/debug questions Message-ID: <3c0b01820803271252m488159ebi2af2255461f10358@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47EBF498.9090409@elischer.org> References: <3c0b01820803270851x24bfe739pea0bd4fb0ebecfb0@mail.gmail.com> <47EBF498.9090409@elischer.org>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > New to the FreeBSD kernel and I'm investigating a driver problem
> > (wasn't sure what list this should go on).
> >
> > I was wondering how to make a driver statically built instead of a
> > loadable module? Is this an artifact of the driver source build or
> > the generic kernel configuration mechanism via options etc.? i.e.
> > does a driver need to use something different than the bsd.kmod.mk
> > template make file to build a static driver.
> >
> > What I am trying to do is break at attach time more easily than
> > stepping through driver_probe_and_attach()/driver_attach_child() until
> > the attach routine gets called. I realize I can add a kdb_enter() but
> > I was trying to do this on a live system without rebuilding the kernel
> > (I understand this contradicts my first question but I still want to
> > know how to build drivers statically).
>
> put the filennames in /sys/conf/files or files.i386 (or whatever)
>
> at one stage you could also have a files.{CONFIGNAME} but I haven't
> tried that for a long time.
Thanks for the response. I will try this but I do have an obvious
question, the build scripts do not need to be edited at all with the
extra directory/files? It will just pickup my driver directory and
link against the kernel automagically?
-aps
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