Re: git: 15e7fa83ef3c - main - arm64: Hyper-V: Add vPCI and Mellanox driver modules into build

From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 07:46:03 UTC 
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:59:00 +0000
Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2023, at 06:56, Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> +options 	COMPAT_LINUXKPI
> >>>>>> +device		xz
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> +device		mlx5
> >>>>>> +device		mlxfw
> >>>>>> +device		mlx5en
> >>>>>> +options 	RATELIMIT
> >> 
> >> As pointed out on IRC, no other kernel config, aside from LINT ones, enables
> >> this. Therefore this seems pretty dubious to add; why does
> >> arm64 need it whilst amd64, which does include Mellanox drivers in its
> >> GENERIC, doesn't need it?
> >> 
> > 
> > How about moving these to std.nvidia? Does it look better to you?
> 
> They?re not part of an Nvidia SoC.
> 
> Anyway, I already moved them to a new std.azure.
> 
> Jess
> 

 Why do we need them in GENERIC anyway ?
 We have modules already built, we have devmatch, if mlx driver don't
autoload we should just fix that.

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>