Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules

From: Boris Samorodov <bsam_at_ipt.ru>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:00 +0400
Hi Søren,

Søren Schmidt <sos_at_FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

> 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:

This is a very good news, big thanks!

> 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!

Didn't work for me at i386-current as of yesterday:
ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/tmp/ata-err.txt


WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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Received on Mon Oct 06 2008 - 13:26:17 UTC

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