svn commit: r230972 - in head: share/mk sys/amd64/conf sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/drm sys/modules/sound/driver sys/modules/usb tools/build/options

[Robert Millan]

El 6 de febrer de 2012 17:48, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> ha escrit:
> On Friday 03 February 2012 07:54 pm, Robert Millan wrote:
>> +nodevice       ti
>
> Tigon 1 and 2 had open-sourced firmware.  In fact, I believe wpaul
> developed custom firmware for FreeBSD and the (early?) sources are
> still available here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/

Well, there's always source somewhere.  I just noticed that some of my
original intent of this MK knob was blurred when renaming to
"MK_SOURCELESS".  The part that is relevant to me (I don't know about
others, just talking for myself here!) is whether a driver is
completely built from source or if a chunk of binary bytes (either
uuencode'd or as a C array) is used instead.

But of course if source is available we could avoid this debate by
just integrating it into the tree :-).  Is this something that would
be desireable in FreeBSD?  I notice there's something similar already
(sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm). Btw, which would be the appropiate list to
discuss this?  freebsd-arch?