mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1)

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 16:59:58 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, October 01, 2012 3:54:50 pm Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The module build is already enabled on all platforms in sys/modules/Makefile.
> You can just add it to i386 GENERIC in a checkout and do
> 'make buildworld TARGET=i386 && make buildkernel TARGET=i386' to test a cross-
> build.

I just figured I'd save myself the time if someone else had already done
it.

I built it on i386 and just checked in the change.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken at FreeBSD.ORG