Custom kernel for RPi2 and 3

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > Last time I tried to support the issue of people should really be
> > building a custom kernel and not running GENERIC I pretty much
> > got shot down as "this is 2018 no one should have to build a
> > kernel".
> >
> 
> The current plan for 12 is that we'll gut GENERIC like a fish, at least on
> x86, and ship with a more minimal kernel. Everything that can be loaded as
> a module automatically will be loaded (there's some things that can't or
> could be but with a crazy amount of work, those wills till be static). The
> devmatch work I've done is driving it, but it isn't fully realized in
> -current yet since there's lots of PCI drivers that need love.

Do you have a list of parts that need module work or converted to modules?
I had, will still have, it still works in 11, moved all the kernel dump
code out to a module, its kinda useless in the deployed embeded world.

> For ARM specifically, we need a lot of work on the FDT side of the house to
> get there, and there's some issues about the best place to do the loading
> that might not be worked out by the branch for 12. Having a better story
> for embedded is needed regardless of the progress towards automatic loading.
> 
> Warner

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org