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

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:34:21 -0700
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:44:18AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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

Note that that is a 4MB image -- I don't know of any floppy that will fit
on.

Note that sparc64/dokern.sh only changes the kernel ident and removes
nothing.  The sparc64 boot.flp is used as the boot image for the CDROM.
The fact that it has a .flp is a pure side affect of release/Makefile's
legacy assumption that every platform has boot floppies.  Yet another way
that release/Makefile needs a *major* over haul.  I'd take that on, but I
know the resulting argument that would entail.
Received on Mon May 19 2003 - 23:34:26 UTC

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