Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 21:30 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:28:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that we have quite a bit of duplicate stuff in each of the 4
>>> i386 ports (cpuid, pci, serial, etc) that could well live in a
>>> firmware-agnostic conf/i386.rmk file.
>>>
>>> This would simplify things and make them easier to maintain.  What do you
>>> think?
>> Btw, I think grub-emu could go there too.  The only arch-specific thing in
>> it AFAICS is cpuid.mod.
> 
> I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every
> time.  One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very
> out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all.  I cannot even test it
> (well, I haven't tries hard).

If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be 
seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone 
comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to 
common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward.