Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:54:18 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r289336 - head/sys/mips/conf Message-ID: <1444866858.51093.3.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2D=OxxTbjnpdMXmsOATkdWZKD-F2qmqVZ-viVvN3OgP%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201510142110.t9ELA6wv001917@repo.freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2D=OxxTbjnpdMXmsOATkdWZKD-F2qmqVZ-viVvN3OgP%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 23:26 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: > On 14 October 2015 at 21:10, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: emaste > > Date: Wed Oct 14 21:10:05 2015 > > New Revision: 289336 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289336 > > > > Log: > > Add Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) kernel config file > > Because I've received a couple of private followups on this commit > I'll reply here to avoid the same discussion being spread across > multiple threads. > > There's a suggestion to have this config include OCTEON1 (on which > this is based) and then set a couple of ident/options. I didn't take > that approach here because OCTEON1 includes a whole bunch of devices > not relevant to the ERL, which has no PCI bus and doesn't support > AHCI, RAID controllers, PCI NICs, etc. In my opinion the device is > small enough that we don't want to bloat the kernel with devices that > cannot be used. To do so while still including OCTEON1 we'd end up > with a config file that's just about as long as this, full of > nodevice > / nooption lines. > > Perhaps it makes sense to pull some common parts out into a > MIPS.common (e.g. options, USB devices, etc.) and include that from > OCTEON1, ERL, and other MIPS configurations? > We did something like that recently for arm, with std.arm and std.armv6 files that have all the devices and options that are common to each of those architectures. -- Ian
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