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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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