Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:58:17 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available Message-ID: <4202EA69-6973-4638-8A0B-040F4FAA0B27@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20090627132941.5d212017@tau.draftnet> References: <8EB69F68-8ED2-469C-B83E-2555A72630B4@deepcore.dk> <20090627132941.5d212017@tau.draftnet>
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On 27Jun, 2009, at 14:29 , Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:11:08 +0200 > S=F8ren Schmidt <sos@deepcore.dk> wrote: > >> This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - >> current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to - >> current since I gave up maintainership. > > It's great to see the driver be modularised since removing unneeded > drivers (for example, on powerpc and embedded platforms) can save > ~200KB. Yep, thats the main idea behind this move, minimizing the footprint. With this and some of the _NO_ options to the world build an almost =20 reasonable sized FreeBSD can be made. FreeBSD seems to have grown *alot* of fat over the last years, not to =20= mention ports where installing one small application gets you both a =20 pony and a barn to keep it in as a "bonus" 8^) > Could you add some documentation for the modules in /sys/conf/NOTES > please? I looked through the sources and put together the patch for > 8.0 which is avaiable at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/133162 but it sounds > like some more drivers will need to be added for 7.2. Good catch, included in my WIP here, when/if I get to put up another =20 release of this it will be in there, thanks! PS: For official inclusion in FreeBSD someone with a commit bit will =20 have to look into this. -S=F8ren --
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