Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Wed Apr 18 00:04:11 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/doc [pgoyette-compat]: COMPAT-branch-notes
Log Message:
Note changes to syscalls.master and friends
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diff -u src/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes:1.1.2.12 src/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes:1.1.2.13
--- src/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes:1.1.2.12 Tue Apr 17 23:06:11 2018
+++ src/doc/COMPAT-branch-notes Wed Apr 18 00:04:11 2018
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ DONE
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 @@ TODO
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,
