Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..

[Dima Dorfman]

John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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