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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2018 08:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336025 - in head/sys: amd64/include i386/include
Message-ID:  <201807071524.w67FOu0F057575@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfonr5f%2BMBcCBzezKUrbFCzcK_e0M%2BHYKAb=2j6Pj16Kpw@mail.gmail.com>

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... Applied the context axe ...

> >
> > A good reason for continuing UP support on x86 is to make it easy to
> > test UP builds in the MI parts of the kernel so that we don't break
> > things for the embedded architectures.  Unfortunately "make universe"
> > currently doesn't have any UP kernels, so I've managed to commit changes
> > that break UP builds and not known it until I received reports of broken
> > builds from other users
> >
> 
> UP kernels have not changed. The setups that have UP kernels generally need
> custom ones anyway, since there's so many devices that aren't used. Those
> setups aren't affected by this change.
> 
> You raise an interesting point, though: it hasn't been important enough to
> the project to include a UP kernel in CI testing we've done for years and
> years...

Should we add GENERIC-UP to atleast i386 and amd64 and include this in
the universe target?

Or perhaps teach LINT to also make LINT-UP? 

Regards,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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