Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:18:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030729171839.GA15443@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy
> support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare. If so,
> could any of you please review the attached patch? (It makes
> Alpha similar to AMD64 regarding floppies, i.e., no floppies.)
...
> .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "alpha"
...
> +NO_FLOPPIES=
...
> Index: alpha/dokern.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: alpha/dokern.sh
> diff -N alpha/dokern.sh
> --- alpha/dokern.sh 28 Jul 2003 18:22:07 -0000 1.73
> +++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
> -#!/bin/sh
> -#
> -# $FreeBSD: src/release/alpha/dokern.sh,v 1.73 2003/07/28 18:22:07 ru Exp $
..snip..
Its not that we want NO_FLOPPIES, we want a single MFSROOT floppy that is
like 10MB large. This is something you can dd(1) onto a disk and install
from. We still need dokern.sh to change the ident, and other minor
things. But there should be no seperate driver floppy, etc..
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