manual pages of acpi_* drivers

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:32:31AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Some time ago, we build all acpi_* on all platforms,
> >>
> >I think it was from the very beginning actually.
> >
> >> However, manual pages are still built only on i386.
> >> I think they should be moved to arch-independent
> >> directory.
> >>
> >Modules for ACPI extras are currently built only on
> >i386 and amd64.  ACPI is also needed on ia64 but it
> >is broken as a module there, and these extras do not
> >apply on ia64 (I don't believe there exist any ia64
> >laptops but I may be mistaken).
> 
> from sys/modules/acpi/Makefile, all acpi extra drivers are
> built on all arch.
> 
Go look it up one level up in sys/modules/Makefile.  :-)

> >I think a more careful approach should be taken instead:
> >
> >1) Determine which of these modules makes sense to
> >   to have on both i386 and amd64.  Repocopy the
> >   respective manpages to a MI directory but still
> >   install them only on i386 and amd64 (so the manpages
> >   match the installed modules).
> >
> >2) Move the i386-only extras from sys/conf/files to
> >   sys/conf/files.i386.
> 
> Yes, this makes sense. But, the problem is that I don't
> know exactly which extra driver is i386 only. As more and
> more vendors supply x86_64 laptop...
> 
> Thanks for the point.
> 
Then make it match the installed modules, i.e., i386
and amd64 only.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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