[oi-dev] [developer] remove various closed build infrastructure

[Josef 'Jeff' Sipek]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 09:22:44PM +0400, alp at sfedu.ru wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek писал 10.08.2013 07:58:
> >I decided to split up the change into several webrevs to make
> >review easier.
> >They apply in the below specified order.  The first patch depends on my
> >'3971 remove EXPORT_RELEASE_BUILD' that I haven't RTI'd yet but
> >will soon.
> >(Check last weeks review requests here for that webrev.)  This does not
> >quite cover all the funky build warts the gate accumulated over
> >the years,
> >but it does take care of the most glaring ones.
> >
> 
> Does this change mean that we'll have to find alternative ways to
> package current closed drivers?
> Particularly, I'm interested in bnx kernel module...

No.  It simply removes the infrastructure to *build* the closed code that
Sun/Oracle *never* released.  It does *not* remove the infrastructure used
to incorporate the closed *binaries* into the packages everyone has grown to
love/hate.

In other words, it is *not* a user visible change.  It does *not* change the
build output.  It simply removes Makefile magic used to build something we
never had access to.

Jeff.

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