Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules

From: Søren Schmidt <sos_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:18:09 +0200
Hi All.

Ignited by recent discussions on -arch about shrinking the binary  
footprint for small systems I searched around in my forest of devel  
tree's and found a branch where I've split up ATA's chipset code into  
vendor specific modules. This is usefull in many ways, so I'm planning  
on committing this soonish, but lets have a round of testing first:

It can be found on http://deepcore.dk/pub/ATA as two files, ata- 
modules-diff that contains a diff for /sys/conf/files and ata- 
modules.tgz that is a replacement for /sys/dev/ata.
This turns the chipset parts into a module for each vendor, and they  
are all compiled in as is, however they can be left out on a pr vendor  
basis (there are a few interdependencies though).
I havn't written all the /sys/modules/ata/*/Makefiles that it would  
take to make it into loadable modules, but thats trivial todo.

Let me know how this works out!

-Søren
Received on Sun Oct 05 2008 - 07:51:26 UTC

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