mps in GENERIC in FreeBSD 9.2R i386

Joe Greco jgreco at ns.sol.net
Thu Oct 3 15:05:20 UTC 2013


Did nobody ever verify this for Ken?

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 23:38:33 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > > stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Merry
> > > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 8:58 PM
> > > To: John Baldwin
> > > Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer; freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1)
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:49:36 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:58:42 am Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > > > >  Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > accidentally I saw that mps is included in sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC,
> > > but
> > > > > not in sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.
> > > > > Is this intended?
> > > >
> > > > Have you tested it on i386?  From the log message, Ken (cc'd) only
> > > added it
> > > > on amd64 as it hadn't been tested on i386.
> > > 
> > > That was certainly the case two years ago.  Since then, though, I think
> > > the LSI folks have tested it on i386.  If we get reports of success
> > > using it on i386, I don't see any issue with putting it in GENERIC.
> > 
> > YES LSI has tested i386 arch on different Released FreeBSDs of 7.x, 8.x and 9.x
> series.
> > 
> 
> That confirms it.  I'll go ahead and check it into head if someone with an
> i386 build environment can confirm that the driver in head builds properly
> on i386.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken

It seems to compile cleanly on i386.  I don't have an easy way to test
it though (only compiling in a VM).

... JG
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