From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 29 19:49:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263DC37B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14584 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2002 03:49:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 30 Mar 2002 03:49:20 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2U3nvv02781; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:49:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020329150224.Y97841@blossom.cjclark.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker Project: NOTES Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Mar-2002 Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:01:29PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> Currently we only have a NOTES file (which contains many MD options and >> drivers) on i386, so we don't get to do LINT compiles on other arch's very >> easily. A very simple solution that doesn't involve much in the way of >> config >> magic would be to split NOTES up into two pieces. All of the MI drivers and >> options would live in sys/conf/NOTES. All of the MD drivers and options >> would >> live in sys//conf/NOTES. Each sys//conf/Makefile would contain >> a >> LINT target. Building LINT would be similar to the way that is done now, >> except that both sys/conf/NOTES and sys//conf/NOTES would be >> concatenated >> to form the input for the perl script. Also, the perl script should likely >> be >> moved to sys/conf so there is only one copy of it. > > Actually, with FreeBSD moving to more and more arch's, is there any > interest in rearranging the sys tree into something more like > {Net,Open}BSD with a sys/arch directory? This would be pretty painful > to do and probably take a _lot_ of repo surgery, but it might be > something useful in the long run. And it doesn't hurt to stay closer > to the other BSD's. > > (Just askin', not proposin'.) All I ask, is that you go talk about this on arch@ under a more appropriate subject line please. :) Otherwise this will become a thread of death and no one will do the JKH project. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message