svn commit: r336025 - in head/sys: amd64/include i386/include

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Sat Jul 7 15:24:59 UTC 2018


... Applied the context axe ...

> >
> > A good reason for continuing UP support on x86 is to make it easy to
> > test UP builds in the MI parts of the kernel so that we don't break
> > things for the embedded architectures.  Unfortunately "make universe"
> > currently doesn't have any UP kernels, so I've managed to commit changes
> > that break UP builds and not known it until I received reports of broken
> > builds from other users
> >
> 
> UP kernels have not changed. The setups that have UP kernels generally need
> custom ones anyway, since there's so many devices that aren't used. Those
> setups aren't affected by this change.
> 
> You raise an interesting point, though: it hasn't been important enough to
> the project to include a UP kernel in CI testing we've done for years and
> years...

Should we add GENERIC-UP to atleast i386 and amd64 and include this in
the universe target?

Or perhaps teach LINT to also make LINT-UP? 

Regards,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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