Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:19:13 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r277204 - head/sys/amd64/conf Message-ID: <20150117081913.GA2064@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5645C90D-2CC7-4517-8AD4-B238AF42AD51@bsdimp.com> References: <201501150042.t0F0g7Um018059@svn.freebsd.org> <54B7E21B.5080008@FreeBSD.org> <20150115162050.GA60729@FreeBSD.org> <5645C90D-2CC7-4517-8AD4-B238AF42AD51@bsdimp.com>
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Among emails in this thread, Warner Losh wrote: [ so to avoid replying on per-email bases ] > (2) is the exact problem I'm working on. Since the design of that will > allow us to read from the kernel these modules, (1) becomes largely > irrelevant because the only /boot/loader incursion would be to load > drivers for any storage devices that are on the PCIe bus. ... > But you bring up a good point. i386 is easy, once the basics are done. > PowerPC is only slightly harder, since it has good /boot/loader support > as well as a GENERIC kernel or two. Ditto sparc64. But stepping into arm > and mips then all hell breaks loose. > > It's also desirable to refactor GENERIC, for the transition period, to be > include MINIMAL + more stuff. I'll do that as time permits. Thanks for these follow-ups, it certainly brings more clarity to what you are up to, and overall it all sounds pretty awesome. Keep it up! :) ./danfe
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