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Date:      Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r230747 - stable/8/sys/conf
Message-ID:  <201201291500.q0TF0WCo040734@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: marius
Date: Sun Jan 29 15:00:31 2012
New Revision: 230747
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230747

Log:
  MFC: r204556
  
  Update a comment to reflect reality and explain why we're using the
  medany code model.

Modified:
  stable/8/sys/conf/kern.mk
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/sys/   (props changed)
  stable/8/sys/amd64/include/xen/   (props changed)
  stable/8/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/   (props changed)
  stable/8/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/   (props changed)
  stable/8/sys/contrib/pf/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/sys/conf/kern.mk
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/sys/conf/kern.mk	Sun Jan 29 15:00:31 2012	(r230746)
+++ stable/8/sys/conf/kern.mk	Sun Jan 29 15:00:31 2012	(r230747)
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ INLINE_LIMIT?=	15000
 .endif
 
 #
-# For sparc64 we want medlow code model, and we tell gcc to use floating
+# For sparc64 we want the medany code model so modules may be located
+# anywhere in the 64-bit address space.  We also tell GCC to use floating
 # point emulation.  This avoids using floating point registers for integer
 # operations which it has a tendency to do.
 #



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