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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:53:17 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARM/SMP, Some patches for review.
Message-ID:  <D611B1D6-9A3C-457F-A350-5516FFD12DE1@bsdimp.com>
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On Nov 23, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Olivier Houchard wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:40:42AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Furthermore these items are used exclusively to change the compiler args only (except the weird DDB_ENABLED for clean files in the arm makefile that I see absolutely no reason to be there).  There should be a better way of doing things, and I'll investigate it.  However, I sometimes think we need to revamp all the building substantially, and not just add hacks to config.
>> 
>> There have often been times that I wanted to disable building these for my own reasons not related to what CPU I'm on.
>> 
> 
> Maybe it's time to make it a separate target again ? 
> I guess now that we have proper bootloaders it will get less and less useful.

I think that you may be right.  I'll work up a couple of patches and post them here for review.

Warner




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