Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 13:05:26 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: About board-specific files.* Message-ID: <FB7CD2D3-12A6-452B-BEBD-DE0B4B01A626@freebsd.org>
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Now that I think I understand some of the issues in building
a GENERIC arm kernel, I'm starting to piece together
a kernel that has both RPi and BBone bits that I can
use as a testbed.
Next Problem: A lot of the boards are using
board-specific files.* to control what files get
linked into the kernel.
This seems like a real problem for a GENERIC kernel,
so I propose merging them into sys/conf/files.arm.
Here's how I'm doing it right now for my current
experiments. If anyone has a better idea, I'm
definitely interested.
Basically, I'm using "device bcm2835" to represent
all of the basic support for that particular SoC.
(An SoC is, after all, just another piece of hardware.)
Then the files marked "standard" in
arm/bcm2835/files.bcm2835 move to
files.arm as "optional bcm2835".
With this approach, the GENERIC arm kernel will
list the SoCs as devices:
device bcm2835
device am335x
device omap4
=85 etc =85
That will bring in the basic support for those SoCs
(e.g., interrupt handler, gpio, clock management, etc).
Additional drivers (SDHCI, UART, USB, etc) will
be separate devices.
I think this makes sense, but I'm open to other ideas.
Tim
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