From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 15 18:28:31 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 7E85137B400; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24A943E42; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63A62A7D6; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650644C26C; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C253811; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mark Peek Cc: Luigi Rizzo , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build write_mfs_in_kernel.c In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:24 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020716012824.18C253811@overcee.wemm.org> 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 Mark Peek wrote: > At 5:09 AM -0700 7/14/02, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >luigi 2002/07/14 05:09:33 PDT > > > > Removed files: > > release/picobsd/build write_mfs_in_kernel.c > > Log: > > Not needed anymore. > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.11 +0 -114 src/release/picobsd/build/write_mfs_in_kernel.c (dea d) > > > This should be "Not needed anymore by picobsd". Back in March there > was discussion about having 2 copies of this in the system, 1 in > src/release and the other in src/release/picobsd/build. John Baldwin > removed it from src/release saying it was no longer needed for > releases. Now, it is being removed completely from the system since > picobsd no longer uses it. > > Is there a replacement way to embed a memory filesystem into the > kernel? (Besides the dd hack that picobsd is using). Are consumers of > this, like the PowerPC porting effort, still needing this > functionality? Will future ports want this? I don't believe it should > be totally removed from the system. Hooking it into usr.sbin would be > more appropriate. I'm hesitant to move it to tools or ports due to > fears of bitrot. Yes, it is far far better to use objcopy --add-section, and then use &__start_
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