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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
>

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