Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <XFMail.010622145213.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010622212347.287CB3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On 22-Jun-01 Dima Dorfman wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> 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.
>
> OpenBSD (and I think NetBSD) solve this problem by having an 'include'
> directive in the kernel config file. E.g., in
> sys/arch/i386/conf/GENRIC (the MD config file):
>
> machine i386
> ...
> include "../../../conf/GENREIC" # <-- MI config file
> ...
>
> I think this is much more general than just splitting NOTES. Is there
> any reason we shouldn't do this? I'd be willing to implement
> 'include' in config(8).
That's fine. LINT is still special, because we do extra processing to convert
NOTES to LINT, but that would make updating GENERIC easier.
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