Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker Project: NOTES Message-ID: <XFMail.20020329224915.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020329150224.Y97841@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On 29-Mar-2002 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:01:29PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Currently we only have a NOTES file (which contains many MD options and
>> drivers) on i386, so we don't get to do LINT compiles on other arch's very
>> easily. A very simple solution that doesn't involve much in the way of
>> config
>> magic would be to split NOTES up into two pieces. All of the MI drivers and
>> options would live in sys/conf/NOTES. All of the MD drivers and options
>> would
>> live in sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES. Each sys/<arch>/conf/Makefile would contain
>> a
>> LINT target. Building LINT would be similar to the way that is done now,
>> except that both sys/conf/NOTES and sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES would be
>> concatenated
>> to form the input for the perl script. Also, the perl script should likely
>> be
>> moved to sys/conf so there is only one copy of it.
>
> Actually, with FreeBSD moving to more and more arch's, is there any
> interest in rearranging the sys tree into something more like
> {Net,Open}BSD with a sys/arch directory? This would be pretty painful
> to do and probably take a _lot_ of repo surgery, but it might be
> something useful in the long run. And it doesn't hurt to stay closer
> to the other BSD's.
>
> (Just askin', not proposin'.)
All I ask, is that you go talk about this on arch@ under a more appropriate
subject line please. :) Otherwise this will become a thread of death and no
one will do the JKH project. :)
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