Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:07:31 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules Message-ID: <04378908@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <C1804611-2AEF-4598-AD07-A40691808A05@FreeBSD.ORG> (=?utf-8?Q?=22S=C3=B8ren?= Schmidt"'s message of "Mon\, 6 Oct 2008 18\:07\:42 %2B0200") References: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG> <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> <C1804611-2AEF-4598-AD07-A40691808A05@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > On 6Oct, 2008, at 17:03 , Boris Samorodov wrote: >> Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 >>> 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 >>> 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/ > ata with ata-modules.tgz. Yep. > Then you have to do a new config of your kernel as lots of files moved > around, and then make depend all your new kernel. I tried both the new way (make buildkernel) as well as the old one (config && make) with same results. I must have done something stupid. :-( > I'll update the instructions on the site when I get home to it. OK, I'll wait for them. Thanks! > -Søren WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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