From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Wed Oct 14 23:55:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0534CA15274 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:55:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from pmta2.delivery6.ore.mailhop.org (pmta2.delivery6.ore.mailhop.org [54.200.129.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D85FA9AD for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:55:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from ilsoft.org (unknown [73.34.117.227]) by outbound2.ore.mailhop.org (Halon Mail Gateway) with ESMTPSA; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rev (rev [172.22.42.240]) by ilsoft.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t9ENsIGV002107; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:54:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <1444866858.51093.3.camel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r289336 - head/sys/mips/conf From: Ian Lepore To: Ed Maste , "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:54:18 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <201510142110.t9ELA6wv001917@repo.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:55:28 -0000 On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 23:26 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: > On 14 October 2015 at 21:10, Ed Maste 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