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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