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Date:      Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:25:34 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        gnn@freebsd.org
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 
Message-ID:  <28930.1120465534@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:00:28 %2B0900." <m2fyuv75cj.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> 

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In message <m2fyuv75cj.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>, gnn@freebsd.org writes:
>At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:36:07 +0200,
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> The trouble with options like this is that they escape our normal
>> build tests.
>> 
>> A good example of this is the kernel option INET which in theory
>> is optional, but which on average only is it 10% of the time.
>
>The only way to get this to work, IMHO, is to take the full system,
>and generate a dependency graph, if that's even possible.  Then you
>know where to cut and where new APIs need to be defined to know where
>to cut.  I'll try to generate this as part of the scripts on
>code-speluking.org.

I played with developing that graph by removing lines from LINT
and see what compiled and what didn't.  Based on the progress I
made I would estimate the full graph will take about 1 CPU-year to
calculate by trial&error.

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