On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:34:23PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > [Reattaching current_at_ as this turns out to be a normal discussion.] Err, Why?? You seem to want to turn this into a bikeshed. Thing like this should be coordinated, designed, and prototyped by a small group of people and then presented. I'm not going to get into a long winded thread with you on this in this forum. > >>> .if ${TARGET_ARCH} == "alpha" && !defined(NO_FLOPPIES) > > A bandaid for Alpha kern.flp being low on space (kgzip(1) > support would fix that). You seem to be the only one strongly arguing for boot floppies on Alpha, and you don't even own one [yet]. I guess they provide a fun challenge for you, but the rest of us that do release builds have come to totally hate them. > >>> .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "ia64" > > ia64 provides the EFI boot loader; there are rumors that > for newer ia32 machines this could also be made a case. Won't be for Athlon PC's. > Overall, I think that having 9 architecture ifdefs for You forgot the whole small, and if this exists and that exists, and then do foo. The makefile is a mess. We've been in-line ".ifdef" special casing everything related to the floppies and CDROM boot image for too long. We would never tolerate that in our C code. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Tue May 20 2003 - 07:29:27 UTC
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