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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:03:05 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        scottl@freebsd.org
Cc:        nate@root.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/acpica Makefile acpi_wakecode.S src/sys/i386/conf NOTES
Message-ID:  <20031030.140305.24902655.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031030122318.J11750@pooker.samsco.home>
References:  <20031030102144.L89089@root.org> <20031030.120158.98361878.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031030122318.J11750@pooker.samsco.home>

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In message: <20031030122318.J11750@pooker.samsco.home>
            Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20031030102144.L89089@root.org>
: >             Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: > : On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > In message: <20031029.232311.115991039.imp@bsdimp.com>
: > : >             M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: > : > : The "general silliness of compiling SMP for all modules" was a design
: > : > : decision for SMPng made a long time ago.  That's why there's no longer
: > : > : a SMP kernel option.
: > : >
: > : > Actually, I'm smoking crack here.  Forget I said it.
: > : >
: > : > We do, however, don't use the lock prefix on UP kernels.  Instead,
: > : > modules call the atomic functions, rather than inlining them.
: > :
: > : Whatever you smoke, the bounty is now up to $40, thanks to another donor.
: > : Let's see some code!
: >
: > I'll clean up what I have and commit it.
: >
: > Warner
: >
: >
: 
: Please, if you're going to do this, do it 100%.  Peter had some
: interesting ideas with unifying the building process of the kernel
: and modules and making the two basically indistinguishable.  This
: would likely get rid of the #ifdef KLD_MODULE hacks running around
: too.

No.  I'm not going to do that.  Like I said, you can have easy, or you
can have complete.  I'm offering to do easy as a first step to
complete, but if you insist on complete, it ain't gonna happen.  We're
back to the same problem we had before.

Warner


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