Re: CVS commit: src/sys/modules

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 27,  7:12pm, paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/modules

| On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| I'd rather not completely disable these, as I fear that a more proper 
| solution will be a long time coming (if ever).  So, rather than just 
| disabling them, I'd prefer to make them specific to amd64 and i386.  The 
| initial module (for combined nvme and ld_nvme) was (and still is) built 
| only for these two platforms.
| 
| I look forward to a productive discussion on tech-kern for ways to move 
| forward.

Well, you could look for <machine/pci_machdep.h> and compile them for
all the platforms that have PCI, but is the additional complexity worth
it compared to the benefit? Disabling them for now is the easiest way
because no matter what, the way they attach or the module is designed
will change.

christos