Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:07:48 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>, Andrea Campi <andrea.campi@it.worldonline.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, josh@zipperup.org, robd@gmx.net Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker Task: M_ZERO Message-ID: <20001022210747.A4324@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <200010221854.aa75575@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM %2B0100 References: <7263.972191191@critter> <200010221854.aa75575@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that > > LINT & GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit... > > It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with > sources build with it. I don't think LINT compiles at the moment, > atleast it seems to get stuck in the midway driver. I'll have a > look at it this evening. > > One other think I wanted to do was seperate out the bits of the > patch which touches code shared among the BSDs (KAME in particular). > We should probably check with the owners of the code before we > touch it, as it is a sort of "cosmetic" change. OTOH, it seems like > something which could be useful for all the BSDs, as it provides > the memory allocation system with a better idea of the demand for > various types of memory. What about using something like #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 5xxxxx This would probably make it easier for multi OS code, and also make it easier to MFC some of the affected code into -stable ?? /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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