A hack to rebuild port KLDs during kernel builds

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:54:26PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a few "third party" KLDs on my system (nvidia, acpi_ppc, dell, if_ndis) 
> and it's quite annoying to have to rebuild them each kernel build, or 
> upgrade. I have thought about putting them in /boot/modules but I have had 
> this crash on my fairly often (esp since I am running -current).
> 
> If you want to try it..
> Apply the diff and make /usr/local/kld and copy port-makefile.txt there as 
> Makefile.
> 
> Note that (obviously) the ports need to be tweaked to install the driver 
> source and build infrastructure there, but that's not too hard (to do by hand 
> for now anyway). I have the 4 I mentioned building just fine with 5 minutes 
> work.
> 
Any chance you can use the recently added PORTS_MODULES knob to do what
you want?

: # cvs -R log -N -r1.71 kern.post.mk
: 
: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/conf/kern.post.mk,v
: Working file: kern.post.mk
: head: 1.73
: branch:
: locks: strict
: access list:
: keyword substitution: kv
: total revisions: 74;    selected revisions: 1
: description:
: ----------------------------
: revision 1.71
: date: 2004/11/11 23:58:14;  author: imp;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -0
: PORTS_MODULES: a list of ports to build with this kernel.
: 
: # I directly use the targets for building this, but it was suggested
: # to use portupgrade.  I couldn't fit that into the target model, so I
: # punted.
: =============================================================================


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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