Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:50:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: Omachonu Ogali <missnglnk@informationwave.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and mdconfig Message-ID: <200106211750.TAA50895@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20010621124714.C68704@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at "Jun 21, 2001 12:47:14 pm"
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> * Do we want NO_SWAPPING on or off in PicoBSD? > I understand that many PicoBSD devices do not have swapspace. > However, my understand of -current is that we do require > swapping to work well. given that in the vast majority of cases you don't have a choice... > * Do we want SOFTUPDATES? same as above. who cares, the memory fs is mostly readonly, and secondary storage is generally unavailable. > * Statically compiling device.hints seems to be awkward. if i am not mistaken, it is the bootloader which should read the hints, but in picobsd there is no bootloader, so we have no other choice. I doubt this is a big issue, anyways, most hardware is PnP these days. flexibility is good, but reality (with its constraints) comes first :) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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