From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 15 14:24:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD45814EE3 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:24:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01526; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912152227.OAA01526@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What is special about /sys/boot/common/gensetdefs.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:27:22 +0100." <3857DD8A.FA67F18A@scc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:27:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The i386 loader, at least, uses a completely different technique for generating linker sets from the kernel. I'm not sure that it's applicable to the kernel/KLDs, but it doesn't require the gensetdefs crap at all. The alpha code should probably be using it as well. > Why is the boot code using a special version of gensetdefs.c? > Is there something special about it that /usr/bin/gensetdefs can't be > used? > > I have the appropriate patches so that /usr/bin/gensetdefs is used, > which enables us to cross-built the boot code. I just want to make sure > I'm not overlooking something. > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl > SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ > The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message