RE: Change to kernel+modules build approach

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:01:00 -0400 (EDT)
On 14-Aug-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:10:19AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>> Luoqi Chen wrote:
> [...]
>> >On the other hand, all modules should create all the opt_*.h files
>> >it needs when built individually. Add opt_ddb.h to nullfs's Makefile
>> >should fix the breakage.
>> >
>> Our kernel build system isn't set up to handle passing config options
>> to modules.  Various solutions to this have been proposed, but nothing
>> has appeared yet.  In 5.x, we document that modules will not work with
>> PAE.
>> 
> How does the below look?  This is basically a more generic implementation
> of Luoqi's idea, but for -CURRENT:

I would prefer something far more radical that would involve moving
all the module metadata to sys/conf (i.e. removing sys/modules) and
building all the modules based on a single kernel config file.

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Received on Thu Aug 14 2003 - 06:00:42 UTC

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