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

[Adrian Chadd]

Yeah, look at what I did with AR71XX_BASE, AR933X_BASE, etc. Maybe
std.OCTEON1, etc..


-a


On 14 October 2015 at 16:26, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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?
>