On 6Oct, 2008, at 17:03 , Boris Samorodov wrote: > 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 You got something wrong in there. You have to apply the patch in ata-modules.diff and replace /sys/dev/ ata with ata-modules.tgz. Then you have to do a new config of your kernel as lots of files moved around, and then make depend all your new kernel. I'll update the instructions on the site when I get home to it. -Søren > > > > WBR > -- > Boris Samorodov (bsam) > Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP > FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > -SørenReceived on Mon Oct 06 2008 - 14:07:45 UTC
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