Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:05:32 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh Message-ID: <200107211905.f6LJ5Xo77276@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:54:12 PDT." <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> <200107211738.f6LHckO97874@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010721195231.A18836@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721111928.A97882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721204314.A19196@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In message <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : Although another approach would be to add a third boot floppy where the : loader has 4th code to load every module on the floppy (much like NT : does). Then we could add back all the bits w/o corresponding modules. One of the Japanese had a scheme whereby you could add almost all the drivers that could be loaded as modules to the second floppy of the i386 boot set (since we already were at two floppies there) to reduce pressure on the kern disk filling up. If this scheme could prove to be expandible, I think it might be a good way of reducing the need to deorbit support for some of these cards in the alpha world. But a third floppy, with all the "obscure" drivers on it might make things easy for most people, while making them possible for the fringe. I have concerns about the alpha platform, and if it is easy to remove barriers to entry, we should do that. I regret not having enough time to properly support it myself :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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