From owner-cvs-all Thu May 11 17:22:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DF337BBAA; Thu, 11 May 2000 17:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA11293; Fri, 12 May 2000 09:52:05 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:52:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Boris Popov Cc: "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common conf.c src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha bootinfo.c elf_freebsd.c src/sys/boot/arc/lib bootinfo.c elf_freebsd.c src/sys/boot/arc/loader conf.c src/sys/boot/common boot.c bootstrap.h load_aout.c load_elf.c module.c pnp.c ... Message-ID: <20000512095205.C11104@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000511150131.A8210@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 12 May 2000 at 7:18:13 +0700, Boris Popov wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:41:26AM -0700, Boris Popov wrote: >>> Modified files: >>> sys/boot/alpha/common conf.c >>> sys/boot/alpha/libalpha bootinfo.c elf_freebsd.c >>> sys/boot/arc/lib bootinfo.c elf_freebsd.c >>> sys/boot/arc/loader conf.c >>> sys/boot/common boot.c bootstrap.h load_aout.c load_elf.c >>> module.c pnp.c >>> sys/boot/i386/libi386 aout_freebsd.c bootinfo.c elf_freebsd.c >>> sys/boot/i386/loader conf.c >>> Log: >>> Update loader logic to distinguish modules vs. files. >>> Add support for module metadata. The old way of dependancy >>> handling will be supported for a while. >> >> This needs to be backed out or fixed. It broke the Alpha loader. >> Us Alpha users have suffered from it for 10 days now. I lost a *lot* of >> time due to this. It is also keeping me from providing JKH with an Alpha >> snapshot for the FTP site. >> >> *** >> *** If this commit cannot be fixed with in 1.5 days, I'll ask >> *** cvs-committers to allow me to back it out. >> *** > > Nobody let me know about it until yesterday. So, time probably is > not the issue. The way I understood the message, it took him that long to work out what was going on. I think that if you can't boot a machine, time is very much one of the issues. Certainly the last paragraph should give you that impression. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message