From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 12:58:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3666B106567C; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from deepcore.dk (adsl.deepcore.dk [87.63.29.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E168FC19; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from [172.18.2.117] (axiell-gw1.novi.dk [77.243.61.137]) by deepcore.dk (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n61CwI21012217; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:58:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Message-Id: <4202EA69-6973-4638-8A0B-040F4FAA0B27@deepcore.dk> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= To: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <20090627132941.5d212017@tau.draftnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:58:17 +0200 References: <8EB69F68-8ED2-469C-B83E-2555A72630B4@deepcore.dk> <20090627132941.5d212017@tau.draftnet> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (deepcore.dk [87.63.29.106]); Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:58:25 -0000 On 27Jun, 2009, at 14:29 , Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:11:08 +0200 > S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > >> This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - >> current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to - >> current since I gave up maintainership. > > It's great to see the driver be modularised since removing unneeded > drivers (for example, on powerpc and embedded platforms) can save > ~200KB. Yep, thats the main idea behind this move, minimizing the footprint. With this and some of the _NO_ options to the world build an almost =20 reasonable sized FreeBSD can be made. FreeBSD seems to have grown *alot* of fat over the last years, not to =20= mention ports where installing one small application gets you both a =20 pony and a barn to keep it in as a "bonus" 8^) > Could you add some documentation for the modules in /sys/conf/NOTES > please? I looked through the sources and put together the patch for > 8.0 which is avaiable at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/133162 but it sounds > like some more drivers will need to be added for 7.2. Good catch, included in my WIP here, when/if I get to put up another =20 release of this it will be in there, thanks! PS: For official inclusion in FreeBSD someone with a commit bit will =20 have to look into this. -S=F8ren --