xref: /src/usr.bin/config/TODO

o Emit everything (ioconf.*, Makefile, ...) per-attribute.

o Generate modular(9) related information.  Especially module dependency.

o Rename "interface attribute" to "bus".

  Instead of

	define	audiobus {}
	attach	audio at audiobus

  Do like this

	defbus	audiobus {}
	attach	audio at audiobus

o Sort objects in more reasonable order.

  Put machdep.ko in the lowest address.  uvm.ko and kern.ko follow.

  Kill alphabetical sort (${OBJS:O} in sys/conf/Makefile.inc.kern.

  Use ldscript.  Do like this

	.text :
	AT (ADDR(.text) & 0x0fffffff)
	{
	  *(.text.machdep.locore.entry)
	  *(.text.machdep.locore)
	  *(.text.machdep)
	  *(.text)
	  *(.text.*)
	  :

  Kill linker definitions in sys/conf/Makefile.inc.kern.

o Differentiate "options" and "flags"/"params".

  "options" enables features by adding *.c files (via attributes).

  "flags" and "params" are to change contents of *.c files.  These don't add
  *.c files to the result kernel, or don't build attributes (modules).

o Make flags/params per attributes (modules).

  Basically flags and params are cpp(1) #define's generated in opt_*.h.  Make
  them local to one attributes (modules).  Flags/params which affects files
  across attributes (modules) are possible, but should be discouraged.

o Generate things only by definitions.

  In the ideal dynamically modular world, "selection" will be done not at
  compile time but at runtime.  Users select their wanted modules, by
  dynamically loading them.

  This means that the system provides all choices; that is, build all modules
  in the source tree.  Necessary information is defined in the "definition"
  part.

o Split cfdata.

  cfdata is pattern matching rules to enable devices at runtime device
  auto-configuration.  It is pure data and can (should) be generated separately
  from the code.

o Allow easier adding and removing of options.

  It should be possible to add or remove options, flags, etc.,
  without regard to whether or not they are already defined.
  For example, a configuration like this:

	include GENERIC
	options FOO
	no options BAR

  should work regardless of whether or not options FOO and/or
  options BAR were defined in GENERIC.  It should not give
  errors like "options BAR was already defined" or "options FOO
  was not defined".