From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 16 2:30: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439E6155CE; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11yYAA-000B4R-00; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:29:34 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA61658; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:29:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <3858BF22.AD6A5B65@scc.nl> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:29:54 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What is special about /sys/boot/common/gensetdefs.c References: <199912152227.OAA01526@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > The i386 loader, at least, uses a completely different technique for > generating linker sets from the kernel. I'm not sure that it's > applicable to the kernel/KLDs, but it doesn't require the gensetdefs crap > at all. The alpha code should probably be using it as well. Either that or /usr/bin/gensetdefs. I go with /usr/bin/gensetdefs, because that leads me to cross-building much faster. I already cross-built Alpha on i386 at home (no kernel), so it's basicly just a matter of reviewing and committing... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message