From owner-cvs-all Sat Nov 9 2:23:19 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BF037B404; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F5943E3B; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:23:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Sunbay) with ESMTP id gA9AMv5V084633 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 9 Nov 2002 12:22:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA9AMqQ7084620; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 12:22:52 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 12:22:52 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Matthew Jacob Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf Message-ID: <20021109102252.GB83098@sunbay.com> References: <20021108145133.GA72027@sunbay.com> <20021108114354.M24193-100000@wonky.feral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021108114354.M24193-100000@wonky.feral.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:05:52PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > UFS_DIRHASH and MSDOSFS were already deleted; these are now duplicates. > > > COMPAT_FREEBSD4 had to come back, maxusers is down to 2. > > > > > Why COMPAT_FREEBSD4 is being put back? Isn't it COMPAT_43, as document= ed > > in kern_sig.c, that is needed for longjmp(3) to work on Alphas? >=20 > I was told COMPAT_FREEBSD4. >=20 Last time it came up (it was Drew), he wasn't so sure about this. Can anyone with a real hardware confirm this? > In any case, just removing COMPAT_FREEBSD4 is bogus because kern_sig > won't compile until you add NO_COMPAT_FREEBSD4. >=20 My changes removed COMPAT_FREEBSD4 from and added NO_COMPAT_FREEBSD4 to BOOTMFS. > > > AHC is out until somebody can make it a module for alpha. > > > > > It was so since November 3rd. Are you testing with old sources? >=20 > No- I was keeping fairly up to date. But I wasn't checking all of the > other changes as they came in. >=20 > I see that there is *something* now. When I've proven to myself that > it'll actually work, I'll put it on the driver disk. >=20 OK, thanks. > > You also seem to have removed the tun(4) and ch(4) drivers, without > > mentioning. Was this on purpose, or by accident? (i386 version > > sucks from removing tun(4) too.) This in essence makes the ppp(8) > > pretty useless, since tun(4) is not available as the module either. > > > > + -e '/tun.*unnel/d' \ > > + -e '/ch.*media/d' \ >=20 > Well - I didn't know ppp was an option- guess it is. That'll go back on > floppy 3. >=20 > Which media changer device do *you* know about that's required for > installing FreeBSD-alpha *from the floppy set*? >=20 My main concern about ch(4) is that it got removed without mentioning in the commit log. And I just wanted to make sure it was done on purpose. > > > I'm sure we'll have to do some further changes prior to release. > > > > > > NB: Not tested end to end yet because I've been told that sysinstall > > > doesn't yet work. > > > > > > Revision Changes Path > > > 1.59 +22 -4 src/release/alpha/dokern.sh > > > 1.9 +11 -7 src/release/alpha/drivers.conf > > > > More problems. In drivers.conf, miibus and dc are now duplicated. > > mpt is now removed by dokern.sh and you've removed the corresponding > > line from drivers.conf -- the net effect is that mpt(4) is no longer > > available as the module on the 2nd floppy. >=20 > Yes, well, I notice that JHB added both isp && mpt as modules. But they > haven't had any testing yet. When they actually are tested and shown to > work, I'll do the right thing at least for mpt and add it back in. >=20 Again, my main concern here is that the commit log didn't talk about this at all. If the reason was that they aren't tested, they should have better be left "as is" anyway; otherwise, how are you going to test it with a fresh install? :-) > > You also did not mention that isp(4) is now back in the kernel, which > > is great. >=20 > Well, it really needs to be until isp as module is proven to work. >=20 > Generally speaking, the common drivers that would be needed in most > cases *should* be statically compiled in. That would be sym, isp, if_de, > miibus/if_dc. Unfortunately, they can't all fit. --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9zOH8Ukv4P6juNwoRAoLnAJ93aretJpnq39VAVJatRidwTqLOcACdF2EI nttFo5cPRU7CpNJu2GtUb+8= =ZzF5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message