Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:07:42 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules Message-ID: <C1804611-2AEF-4598-AD07-A40691808A05@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <70456379@bb.ipt.ru> References: <376EE5F0-1183-4318-82ED-D23967B27933@FreeBSD.ORG> <70456379@bb.ipt.ru>
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On 6Oct, 2008, at 17:03 , Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi S=F8ren, > > S=F8ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > >> Ignited by recent discussions on -arch about shrinking the binary >> footprint for small systems I searched around in my forest of devel >> tree's and found a branch where I've split up ATA's chipset code into >> vendor specific modules. This is usefull in many ways, so I'm =20 >> planning >> on committing this soonish, but lets have a round of testing first: > > This is a very good news, big thanks! > >> It can be found on http://deepcore.dk/pub/ATA as two files, ata- >> modules-diff that contains a diff for /sys/conf/files and ata- >> modules.tgz that is a replacement for /sys/dev/ata. >> This turns the chipset parts into a module for each vendor, and they >> are all compiled in as is, however they can be left out on a pr =20 >> vendor >> basis (there are a few interdependencies though). >> I havn't written all the /sys/modules/ata/*/Makefiles that it would >> take to make it into loadable modules, but thats trivial todo. >> >> Let me know how this works out! > > Didn't work for me at i386-current as of yesterday: > ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/tmp/ata-err.txt You got something wrong in there. You have to apply the patch in ata-modules.diff and replace /sys/dev/=20 ata with ata-modules.tgz. Then you have to do a new config of your kernel as lots of files moved =20= around, and then make depend all your new kernel. I'll update the instructions on the site when I get home to it. -S=F8ren > > > > WBR > --=20 > Boris Samorodov (bsam) > Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP > FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > -S=F8ren
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