svn commit: r289336 - head/sys/mips/conf

[Ed Maste]

On 14 October 2015 at 21:10, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Wed Oct 14 21:10:05 2015
> New Revision: 289336
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289336
>
> Log:
>   Add Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) kernel config file

Because I've received a couple of private followups on this commit
I'll reply here to avoid the same discussion being spread across
multiple threads.

There's a suggestion to have this config include OCTEON1 (on which
this is based) and then set a couple of ident/options. I didn't take
that approach here because OCTEON1 includes a whole bunch of devices
not relevant to the ERL, which has no PCI bus and doesn't support
AHCI, RAID controllers, PCI NICs, etc. In my opinion the device is
small enough that we don't want to bloat the kernel with devices that
cannot be used. To do so while still including OCTEON1 we'd end up
with a config file that's just about as long as this, full of nodevice
/ nooption lines.

Perhaps it makes sense to pull some common parts out into a
MIPS.common (e.g. options, USB devices, etc.) and include that from
OCTEON1, ERL, and other MIPS configurations?