On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 23:26 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: > On 14 October 2015 at 21:10, Ed Maste <[email protected]> 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? >
We did something like that recently for arm, with std.arm and std.armv6 files that have all the devices and options that are common to each of those architectures. -- Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
