Change to kernel+modules build approach
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 14 22:23:26 PDT 2003
In message: <3F3C6D22.8050305 at freebsd.org>
Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
: I can tell you first hand that this is painful. However, in the case of
: PAE, it's somewhat neccessary since certain fundamental types change
: size. I can envision solutions for this, but I'm not sure if they are
: less painful than just dealing with multiple module builds.
Personally I think that pae should be its own port, much like pc98 is
its own port, although much smaller in scope. It has a few,
fundamental differences from the "stock" i386 port. Since the data
type sizes are different with PAE there's no way around that.
Warner
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