Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:49:58 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manual pages of acpi_* drivers Message-ID: <6eb82e0704030249h2c984326k97fc1d0c83fca4a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070403094215.GA14378@rambler-co.ru> References: <6eb82e0704021232j383c4fc7va78d6cb5f6b45eee@mail.gmail.com> <20070403094215.GA14378@rambler-co.ru>
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On 4/3/07, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:32:31AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some time ago, we build all acpi_* on all platforms, > > > I think it was from the very beginning actually. > > > However, manual pages are still built only on i386. > > I think they should be moved to arch-independent > > directory. > > > Modules for ACPI extras are currently built only on > i386 and amd64. ACPI is also needed on ia64 but it > is broken as a module there, and these extras do not > apply on ia64 (I don't believe there exist any ia64 > laptops but I may be mistaken). from sys/modules/acpi/Makefile, all acpi extra drivers are built on all arch. > I think a more careful approach should be taken instead: > > 1) Determine which of these modules makes sense to > to have on both i386 and amd64. Repocopy the > respective manpages to a MI directory but still > install them only on i386 and amd64 (so the manpages > match the installed modules). > > 2) Move the i386-only extras from sys/conf/files to > sys/conf/files.i386. Yes, this makes sense. But, the problem is that I don't know exactly which extra driver is i386 only. As more and more vendors supply x86_64 laptop... Thanks for the point. Regards, Rong-En Fan > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > ru@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer > >
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