Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <XFMail.010622110208.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010622104940.P20923-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
>
> 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?
Sure, fine. I don't really care which, I just would like the problem solved
somehow. :)
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