From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 15:26:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704461065688; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262D48FC0A; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1Kmrc5-000PRZ-52; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:09 +0400 To: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren?= Schmidt References: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:00 +0400 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 +0200") Message-ID: <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: current Subject: Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:26:17 -0000 Hi Søren, Søren Schmidt 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