Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <XFMail.010622105201.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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*
--
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