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. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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