RFC: MK_BLOBS build option

[Xin Li]

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Hi,

On 01/28/12 07:01, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:54:21AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
>> 
>> I meant this, basically we have:
>> 
>> GENERIC -- default kernel in FreeBSD SOURCELESS_EXCLUDES -- a
>> meta-'overlay' that contains 'include SOURCELESS_HOST_EXCLUDES'
>> and 'include SOURCELESS_UCODE_EXCLUDES' SOURCELESS_HOST_EXCLUDES
>> -- a 'overlay' that contains a few 'nodevice <devname>'s 
>> SOURCELESS_UCODE_EXCLUDES -- ditto
>> 
>> This way, e.g. GENERIC-DEBIAN would be simply:
>> 
>> include GENERIC include SOURCELESS_EXCLUDES
>> 
>> This way would minimize the maintenance of the GENERIC-DEBIAN I
>> think while not compromising your policy of not including these
>> stuff in binary?
> 
> Sounds fine to me.  Please let me know what you think about this.
> I took your idea but used "WITHOUT" rather than "EXCLUDES" for
> consistency with the MK_SOURCELESS_* options (which would be
> disabled using e.g. -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS_UCODE in command-line).
> 
> I've also rewritten descriptions of the MK_* options so they use
> the word "sourceless" instead of referring to "binary-only blobs".

Sorry for the late response.  The patch looks good to me.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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