From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 16:07:45 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 382221065686 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from deepcore.dk (adsl.deepcore.dk [87.63.29.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73058FC0A for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:07:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from [192.168.0.138] ([192.168.0.138]) by deepcore.dk (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m96G7gPi071160; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:07:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.ORG) Message-Id: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= To: Boris Samorodov In-Reply-To: <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:07:42 +0200 References: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG> <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (deepcore.dk [217.20.59.72]); Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:07:42 +0200 (CEST) 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 16:07:45 -0000 On 6Oct, 2008, at 17:03 , Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi S=F8ren, > > S=F8ren 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 =20 >> 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 =20 >> 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 You got something wrong in there. You have to apply the patch in ata-modules.diff and replace /sys/dev/=20 ata with ata-modules.tgz. Then you have to do a new config of your kernel as lots of files moved =20= around, and then make depend all your new kernel. I'll update the instructions on the site when I get home to it. -S=F8ren > > > > WBR > --=20 > Boris Samorodov (bsam) > Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP > FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > -S=F8ren