Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:00 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules Message-ID: <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG> (=?utf-8?Q?=22S=C3=B8ren?= Schmidt"'s message of "Sun\, 5 Oct 2008 11\:18\:09 %2B0200") References: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Hi Søren, Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > Ignited by recent discussions on -arch about shrinking the binary > footprint for small systems I searched around in my forest of devel > tree's and found a branch where I've split up ATA's chipset code into > vendor specific modules. This is usefull in many ways, so I'm planning > on committing this soonish, but lets have a round of testing first: This is a very good news, big thanks! > It can be found on http://deepcore.dk/pub/ATA as two files, ata- > modules-diff that contains a diff for /sys/conf/files and ata- > modules.tgz that is a replacement for /sys/dev/ata. > This turns the chipset parts into a module for each vendor, and they > are all compiled in as is, however they can be left out on a pr vendor > basis (there are a few interdependencies though). > I havn't written all the /sys/modules/ata/*/Makefiles that it would > take to make it into loadable modules, but thats trivial todo. > > Let me know how this works out! Didn't work for me at i386-current as of yesterday: ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/tmp/ata-err.txt WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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