Re: Request for testing: ATA chipset code as modules

Søren Schmidt <sos_at_FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> On 6Oct, 2008, at 17:03 , Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> 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.

Yep.

> 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 tried both the new way (make buildkernel) as well as the old one
(config && make) with same results. I must have done something
stupid. :-(

> I'll update the instructions on the site when I get home to it.

OK, I'll wait for them. Thanks!

> -Søren

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