Re: Tidying src/release/*/{dokern.sh,drivers.conf}

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:44:18 +0300
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:11:06PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:31:20PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > sparc64/GENERIC was the old-man out.  I feel we should return
> > > {i386,alpha,ia64}/GENERIC back to their previous way of no ispfw since
> > > this is quite late in the 5.1 game to be changing this.  I then think we
> > > should ponder making sparc64 consistent with {i386,alpha,ia64}/GENERIC.
> >  
> > I do not object.  Removing it now from sparc64/GENERIC would
> > be premature since sparc64 does not have drivers.conf, and
> > this would give us the BOOTMFS without it, and without being
> > able to load it as a module.
> 
> You do know that we do not support boot floppies on sparc64, correct?
> 
I wonder why we then have this:

ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/5.1-BETA/floppies" is current directory.
ftp> dir
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||1119|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 8256
-rw-r--r--   1 110      root      4194304 May  8 02:18 boot.flp
226 Transfer complete.


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