Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:24:23 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: scottl@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change to kernel+modules build approach Message-ID: <20030814.232423.54451456.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3C6D22.8050305@freebsd.org> References: <XFMail.20030814110100.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030814.223212.102654511.imp@bsdimp.com> <3F3C6D22.8050305@freebsd.org>
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Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> writes:
: I can tell you first hand that this is painful. However, in the case of
: PAE, it's somewhat neccessary since certain fundamental types change
: size. I can envision solutions for this, but I'm not sure if they are
: less painful than just dealing with multiple module builds.
Personally I think that pae should be its own port, much like pc98 is
its own port, although much smaller in scope. It has a few,
fundamental differences from the "stock" i386 port. Since the data
type sizes are different with PAE there's no way around that.
Warner
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