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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:08:10 -0800
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: MK_BLOBS build option
Message-ID:  <4F2714CA.2030401@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120128150126.GA14522@thorin>
References:  <20120122201814.GA32081@thorin> <4F1DBB94.900@delphij.net> <CAOfDtXME9PzmC2S8uqfYoPLb0%2BbbFKsBY5H3EWK3fpkGp7J8Ow@mail.gmail.com> <4F204FDD.60807@delphij.net> <20120128150126.GA14522@thorin>

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Hi,

On 01/28/12 07:01, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:54:21AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
>> 
>> I meant this, basically we have:
>> 
>> GENERIC -- default kernel in FreeBSD SOURCELESS_EXCLUDES -- a
>> meta-'overlay' that contains 'include SOURCELESS_HOST_EXCLUDES'
>> and 'include SOURCELESS_UCODE_EXCLUDES' SOURCELESS_HOST_EXCLUDES
>> -- a 'overlay' that contains a few 'nodevice <devname>'s 
>> SOURCELESS_UCODE_EXCLUDES -- ditto
>> 
>> This way, e.g. GENERIC-DEBIAN would be simply:
>> 
>> include GENERIC include SOURCELESS_EXCLUDES
>> 
>> This way would minimize the maintenance of the GENERIC-DEBIAN I
>> think while not compromising your policy of not including these
>> stuff in binary?
> 
> Sounds fine to me.  Please let me know what you think about this.
> I took your idea but used "WITHOUT" rather than "EXCLUDES" for
> consistency with the MK_SOURCELESS_* options (which would be
> disabled using e.g. -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS_UCODE in command-line).
> 
> I've also rewritten descriptions of the MK_* options so they use
> the word "sourceless" instead of referring to "binary-only blobs".

Sorry for the late response.  The patch looks good to me.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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