Re: [PATCH] Big cleanup job on memory device
From: Peter Pentchev (roam_at_ringlet.net)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:02:18 +0300 To: Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:52:55PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hey all
>
> Please have a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~markm/mem.diff
>
> It is a big cleanup of sys/${ARCH}/${ARCH}/mem.c, and it turns
> multiple copies of MD code into MI code with the MD bits broken
> out. Lots of garbage is retired.
>
> It also turns the memory and io devices into loadable modules,
> but going this route is probably for the braver folks amongst us.
>
> I wrote 99% of this code more than a year ago, and over time, its
> been tested on i386, alpha and sparc64.
Works for me; it just survived a buildworld on my somewhat loaded
workstation (MySQL, PostgreSQL, X and all).
It seems that you would need something like the attached patch to
actually build LINT, though. And of course, a very strongly-worded
UPDATING entry about including the 'null' and 'mem' devices in
the kernel config, but I guess that's already on your list :)
G'luck,
Peter
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