ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

[Søren Schmidt]

On 27Jun, 2009, at 14:29 , Bruce Cran wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:11:08 +0200
> Søren Schmidt <sos at deepcore.dk> wrote:
>
>> This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in -
>> current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to -
>> current since I gave up maintainership.
>
> It's great to see the driver be modularised since removing unneeded
> drivers (for example, on powerpc and embedded platforms) can save
> ~200KB.

Yep, thats the main idea behind this move, minimizing the footprint.
With this and some of the _NO_ options to the world build an almost  
reasonable sized FreeBSD can be made.
FreeBSD seems to have grown *alot* of fat over the last years, not to  
mention ports where installing one small application gets you both a  
pony and a barn to keep it in as a "bonus" 8^)

> Could you add some documentation for the modules in /sys/conf/NOTES
> please?  I looked through the sources and put together the patch for
> 8.0 which is avaiable at
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/133162 but it sounds
> like some more drivers will need to be added for 7.2.

Good catch, included in my WIP here, when/if I get to put up another  
release of this it will be in there, thanks!

PS: For official inclusion in FreeBSD someone with a commit bit will  
have to look into this.

-Søren
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