Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:50:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <20010622104940.P20923-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622105201.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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?
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