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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:05:24 -0400
From:      "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com>
To:        pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stupid driver build/debug questions
Message-ID:  <3c0b01820803271405r2351cbbwb20b8b35c5621dcb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a31046fc0803271339l38230426p31292b3cc307ca27@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3c0b01820803270851x24bfe739pea0bd4fb0ebecfb0@mail.gmail.com> <47EBF498.9090409@elischer.org> <3c0b01820803271252m488159ebi2af2255461f10358@mail.gmail.com> <a31046fc0803271339l38230426p31292b3cc307ca27@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:39 PM, pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 27/03/2008, Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>  >  > Alexander Sack wrote:
>  >  >  > Hello:
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > New to the FreeBSD kernel and I'm investigating a driver problem
>  >  >  > (wasn't sure what list this should go on).
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I was wondering how to make a driver statically built instead of a
>  >  >  > loadable module?  Is this an artifact of the driver source build or
>  >  >  > the generic kernel configuration mechanism via options etc.?  i.e.
>  >  >  > does a driver need to use something different than the bsd.kmod.mk
>  >  >  > template make file to build a static driver.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > What I am trying to do is break at attach time more easily than
>  >  >  > stepping through driver_probe_and_attach()/driver_attach_child() until
>  >  >  > the attach routine gets called.  I realize I can add a kdb_enter() but
>  >  >  > I was trying to do this on a live system without rebuilding the kernel
>  >  >  > (I understand this contradicts my first question but I still want to
>  >  >  > know how to build drivers statically).
>  >  >
>  >  >  put the filennames in /sys/conf/files or files.i386 (or whatever)
>  >  >
>  >  >  at one stage you could also have a files.{CONFIGNAME} but I haven't
>  >  >  tried that for a long time.
>  >
>  >
>  > Thanks for the response.  I will try this but I do have an obvious
>  >  question, the build scripts do not need to be edited at all with the
>  >  extra directory/files?  It will just pickup my driver directory and
>  >  link against the kernel automagically?
>
>  Yes, It will if you add them to standard files list (see conf/files).
>  (Otherwise if you want it as options directive in your kernel config
>  than you should mark its module name in conf/files and also put
>  an appropriate record into conf/options).

Thank you very much, that is what I thought regarding it as an options
directive instead of a driver - I just wanted some validation before
going down that path.

Again, thanks guys,

-aps

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