Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:31:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES Message-ID: <20030224023118.GD67312@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030224120037.D4403-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224120037.D4403-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:17:08PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Any comments before I commit this?
>
> Please don't commit this. Splitting NOTES into 2 files (for each arch)
> already made it harder to maintain and use.
[picking a random email to respond to...]
Those saying this need to offer alternatives.
> Parts of the above split is wrong anyway:
> - ext2fs is inherently MI. It doesn't compile on some arches since it has
> some optimizations which are only implemented (in asm) on i386's and
> alphas's. These optimizations are bogus -- slightly (;-) more important
> filesystem like ffs just use C code for the corresponding things
> (scanning bitmaps).
ext2fs is piss-poorly documented where we got the Linux bits from what
had to be done to make then work for us. I have up after an hour trying
to get the right sys/gnu/ext2fs/sparc64-bitopts.h. So I don't think
anyone is going to do it anytime soon. I'll just move it to
sys/{i386,alpha}/conf/NOTES
> - syscons is supposed to be MI. If it weren't MI, then it wouldn't be in
> /sys/dev ;-).
"meant" != is. The work to make it truly MI is immense.
> - bt and some other devices may be fairly bus-dependent and have no future,
> but they can be removed from ../../conf/NOTES using a whole 1 `nodevice'
> line (but don't do too much of this or ../../conf/NOTES files would grow
> to have almost as much duplication as separate files).
I doubt bt(4) will work on sparc64, PowerPC, or IA-64. So do people want
all that's in NOTES.bt (and that's a lot of docs) to be duplicated three
times in sys/{alpha,i386,pc98}/conf/NOTES or split out as I have??
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