Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:23:47 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <20010622212347.287CB3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622105201.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT)"
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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).
Thanks,
Dima Dorfman
dima@unixfreak.org
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