Re: Using nvidia-driver with 6-x/CURRENT

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:16:10 +0930
On Mon, 9 May 2005 20:53, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > What I have so far is here..
> > http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/port-kld.diff
> > http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/port-makefile.txt
>
> IIRC, bsdimp_at_ has already committed such a feature.  You are supposed to
> use the PORTS_MODULES make variable.

PORTS_MODULES is suboptimal because it forces you to rebuild the entire port 
when you build a new kernel. If you keep your ports tree up to date regularly 
(eg cron job) this can mean the version of the KLD changes between kernel 
builds which is a bit of a POLA violation IMO.

You also end up with part of your kernel build outside of /usr/obj which make 
be a problem if you build for multiple machines. (Although my attempt has a 
related limitation)

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