Re: HEADSUP: drm-current-kmod now installs sources

On 8/14/19 9:22 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> This all sounds vaguely wrong, backwards, to me.  A developer who is
> using a given module on their build system might want that module to be
> rebuilt automatically, but only if the build parameters match those of
> the running build host system.
> 
> If my build host is running freebsd 12 amd64 and I'm doing a build for
> freebsd 13 armv7, I have no interest in automatic rebuilds of an amd64
> driver module for a different OS arch and version just because that
> module happens to be installed on the system I use to do crossbuilds.
> 
> My objections are theoretical... this automation just seems improperly
> designed to me.  But it won't actually affect me in any way, because I
> don't build video driver modules from ports, and I don't run freebsd
> current on my build host machine.  Probably the number of people doing
> crossbuilding is small enough that nobody else is going to object to
> this "the whole world is amd64" automation.

You assume DRM is amd64-only when it is definitely not.  It also has
suitable guards in its Makefile to only build the relevant kernel
modules on supported architectures.

-- 
John Baldwin