From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 2 13:27:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5D437C0D6 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13K56N-0009Xu-00; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:26:55 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:26:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conditionally removing cosmetic messages for small kernels (PICOBSD). Message-ID: <20000802222655.A36653@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000717152514.A2056@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:22:27PM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-08-02 (22:22), Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > If I were to do/start the work on the rest of the system, would this be > > acceptable? Initial patch attached. (There seems to be "quirk" fixes > > mixed in with the cosmetic stuff, so the patches aren't as clean as they > > could be.) > > This sounds like a great idea to me. I've been pondering hacking up > patches for BUILD_TINY/BUILD_SMALL options throughout various system > utilities, but I just haven't had the time to look at it yet. > > Being able to tune various parts of the build process better (memory > footprint vs speed etc..) would allow us to tailor PicoBSD to more uses > than we're currently able to. Oh, I nearly forgot about this. I sent phk a prototype patch which did this whole thing more sensibly for pcisupport.c. It's attached, is slightly old, but gives the general idea on how to do it. Feel free to suggest better names for the struct. The define should probably be against PCI_QUIET, not "PICOBSD". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message