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[src/pgoyette-compat]: src/doc Note changes to syscalls.master and friends



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/84d670bad6d0
branches:  pgoyette-compat
changeset: 830576:84d670bad6d0
user:      pgoyette <pgoyette%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Apr 18 00:04:11 2018 +0000

description:
Note changes to syscalls.master and friends

diffstat:

 doc/COMPAT-branch-notes |  24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diffs (66 lines):

diff -r d7065f650a91 -r 84d670bad6d0 doc/COMPAT-branch-notes
--- a/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes   Wed Apr 18 00:01:18 2018 +0000
+++ b/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes   Wed Apr 18 00:04:11 2018 +0000
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
     There are still several areas which are not complete - see the
     TODO list below for more details.
 
+10. syscalls.master has been updated to autoload the version-specific
+    compat modules rather than the monolithic modules.
+
 
 TODO
 ----
@@ -50,43 +53,40 @@
     COMPAT_xx.  When found, move the actual compat code into the compat
     hierarchy and replace originals with indirect (vectored) calls.
 
-2.  Update syscalls.master to reflect that modular syscalls are now
-    provided by version-specific modules.
-
-3.  The rtsock compat code is a disaster, with rtsock_50.c #include-ing
+2.  The rtsock compat code is a disaster, with rtsock_50.c #include-ing
     the main rtsock.c code with various manipulations of the COMPAT_50
     macro.
 
-4.  The compat_60 module still needs some work for XEN systems.  We
+3.  The compat_60 module still needs some work for XEN systems.  We
     probably need some build infrastructure changes to ensure that
     XEN (and, for i386, XEN-PAE) modules are build with the correct
     macros defined and with -I directories specified in the same order
     as for building kernels.
 
-5.  Update syscalls.master to point the compat calls at the specific
+4.  Update syscalls.master to point the compat calls at the specific
     modules rather than the monolithic compat module.  Update the
     "required" lists of other modules, too.
 
-6.  The rtsock compatability code needs to be de-spaghetti'd and made
+5.  The rtsock compatability code needs to be de-spaghetti'd and made
     separable into rtsock_70 and rtsock_50 pieces.
 
-8.  Once rtsock is separated, compat_14 references to rtsock_50 routines
+6.  Once rtsock is separated, compat_14 references to rtsock_50 routines
     needs to be verified.
 
-8.  For compat_60, still need to figure out what to do with BSDPTY and
+7.  For compat_60, still need to figure out what to do with BSDPTY and
     tty_ptm
 
-9.  Also for compat_60, need to fix the building of XEN (and, for i386,
+8.  Also for compat_60, need to fix the building of XEN (and, for i386,
     XEN-PAE) module variants so that the obj-dir symlinks and the -I
     include order match those present in a kernel build.  See PR/53130
     (Currently, this affects the compat_60 module and its implementation
     of microcode updates for AMD processors - i386 and amd64.)
 
-10. For compat_50, in addition to rtsock there are some things in dev/vnd,
+9.  For compat_50, in addition to rtsock there are some things in dev/vnd,
     dev/gpio, and dev/wscons/wsmux that I haven't been able to cleanly
     separate.
 
-11. There seems to be quite a bit of MD compat_xx code, in the various
+10. There seems to be quite a bit of MD compat_xx code, in the various
     sys/arch/ directories.  I haven't yet looked at any of this.  But it
     seems to me that the MI compat build infrastructure should have some
     mechanism to "reach over" to the MD code, #include a Makefile.inc file,



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