svn commit: r277204 - head/sys/amd64/conf

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 17 08:19:13 UTC 2015


Among emails in this thread, Warner Losh wrote:
[ so to avoid replying on per-email bases ]
> (2) is the exact problem I'm working on. Since the design of that will
> allow us to read from the kernel these modules, (1) becomes largely
> irrelevant because the only /boot/loader incursion would be to load
> drivers for any storage devices that are on the PCIe bus.
...
> But you bring up a good point. i386 is easy, once the basics are done.
> PowerPC is only slightly harder, since it has good /boot/loader support
> as well as a GENERIC kernel or two. Ditto sparc64. But stepping into arm
> and mips then all hell breaks loose.
> 
> It's also desirable to refactor GENERIC, for the transition period, to be
> include MINIMAL + more stuff. I'll do that as time permits.

Thanks for these follow-ups, it certainly brings more clarity to what you
are up to, and overall it all sounds pretty awesome.  Keep it up! :)

./danfe


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