From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 08:26:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21893 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 08:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA21823 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 08:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA29505; Sat, 30 May 1998 15:46:04 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805301346.PAA29505@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: How about /usr/ports/kernel ? To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 15:46:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just looking backward, i realize that i am doing a lot of work on the kernel, and so are others. So, how about adding a new port category, /usr/ports/kernel, where one can find various kernel enhancements etc which for any reason did not find their way in the main source tree ? That would accommodate the following things: * work in progress before inclusion in the kernel (e.g. CDDA patches, IDE CDWriter support, vfat, ntfs,...). * special drivers that very few people uses. E.g. transputer, qcam, perhaps x10. * special kernel patches/subsystem (e.g. ALTQ, dummynet, PAO, ...) * backport of features from 3.0 (use at your own risk :) e.g. IDE busmastering or whatever Comments ? This section would be highly dynamic, but in my opinion very useful. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message