From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 22 10:50:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE02C37B403; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5MHo5g74865; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:50:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: John Baldwin Cc: Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010622104940.P20923-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 22 Jun 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > 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/${MACHINE_ARCH}/FOO rather than sys/compile/FOO. > This is very helpful when you share the same sys/ tree across several > machines with different architectures. For example, I share the same sys/ > tree via NFS across almost all my testboxes including alpha and i386. Every > time I want to compile GENERIC (I keep kernel.GENERIC up to date on my boxes) > as part of an installworld I have to go manipulate symlinks (and/or shuffle > directories around). Fixing this would make life for the non-x86 centric > types a bit easier, although there'll probably be a big bikeshed over > changing the build directory. *sigh* > Why can't we do it like NetBSD and have sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message