From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 22 10:45:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF7C37B403 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5MHjXI71793 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. 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 Hey all, This is a request for some simple changes to the kernel configuration stuff that would be nice to have if someone wants to do them before I finally (if ever) get around to doing it. Both have to do with making our kernel config stuff more multi-platform friendly. 1) Split sys/i386/conf/NOTES up into MI and MD parts. The MI portion would become sys/conf/NOTES and would contain all the machine independent options and devices. The MD options and devices would live in sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/NOTES. This would include altering the sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/Makefile's (based on the LINT: target in the i386 Makefile) to concatenate the MI and MD NOTES files together to feed to makelint.pl to build LINT. This addresses problems with not having a place for non-i386 kernel options/devices that aren't in GENERIC for example. 2) Build kernels in sys/compile/${MACHINE_ARCH}/FOO rather than sys/compile/FOO. This is very helpful when you share the same sys/ tree across several machines with different architectures. For example, I share the same sys/ tree via NFS across almost all my testboxes including alpha and i386. Every time I want to compile GENERIC (I keep kernel.GENERIC up to date on my boxes) as part of an installworld I have to go manipulate symlinks (and/or shuffle directories around). Fixing this would make life for the non-x86 centric types a bit easier, although there'll probably be a big bikeshed over changing the build directory. *sigh* -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "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