[4823] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax kernel dependancies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Apr 26 00:55:42 1990
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 00:55:16 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Mark Rosenstein's message of Wed, 25 Apr 90 18:38:15 -0400,
Don't forget "VAXSTAR".... I don't think it was the case when we got
our kernels first working on the 3100 that you could build them
without the other CPU types defined.
I have been able to build a kernel without the non-3100 disks. The
one running on multics right now has only the devices on that machine
(including a "uba" to hang them off of), plus a couple of non-existant
disks on controllers that do have other disks on them. I can give you
the config file if you want. (I built it before most of the 7.0
changes started going in; I don't know if it would still work now.)
It would be good if the CPU-type dependencies could be made more
independent, but it means a lot of tedious re-writing of #ifdef's and
some experimentation. It didn't seem to be worth it at the time when
we were just starting to get the kernel working.
