On 5/29/2016 3:53 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > Quoting the original note about WITH_META_MODE ( https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2016-May/061481.html ): > >> You will also need to load the filemon(4) module with 'kldload filemon'. > > But head's sys/modules/Makefile says: > >> .if defined(MODULES_OVERRIDE) && !defined(ALL_MODULES) >> SUBDIR=${MODULES_OVERRIDE} >> .else >> SUBDIR= \ > > . . . >> ${_filemon} \ > > . . . >> .if ${MACHINE_CPUARCH} == "i386" || ${MACHINE_CPUARCH} == "amd64" > . . . >> _filemon= filemon > . . . > > as the only contexts that provide a filemon.ko to use with kldload. > > Thus, for example, arm variants (32 bit and 64 bit) and powerpc variants (32bit and 64 bit) do not have WITH_META_MODE as an option as things are set up. > > I had been hoping to cut down on the time for clang-related rebuilds during native buildworld runs on my slower buildworld contexts (armv7a/cortex-a7, powerpc, powerpc64). But it was not to be. > > It appears that, once some arm variants are officially tier 1, WITH_META_MODE will not span all tier 1 platforms. > > [Since I tend to use non-tier-1 platforms I tend to notice some of the statements about FreeBSD that are true of only tier 1 without being explicit about it. But initially it takes some research to discover that status for each such point. WITH_META_MODE is an example.] > I've just enabled the filemon(4) build on all architectures in r301130. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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