Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 17:48:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812050148.RAA01551@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 02:37:55 %2B0100." <199812050137.CAA04929@yedi.iaf.nl>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > > I'm on the verge of committing four new fast ethernet device drivers > > > to -current, however I'm a bit concerned about running out of space on > > > the installation floppy (these drivers will be added to the GENERIC > > > > Even if we do hit a wall, we can always make it a kern.flp only feature. > > Eventually with the growing hardware support we would be back at a > 2 floppy boot set it seems. Not a problem in my opinion, but is there a > general strategy or is it simply 'waiting for the wall'? At the moment, the current exploratory strategy is the split kern.flp/ mfsroot.gz arrangement. It's probably going to make more sense just to have them as two floppy images for distribution purposes. The alternative will be to have a single minimal kernel and mfsroot floppy, and another floppy with a pile of KLD modules on it. This won't be feasible until the PCI code moves to the new bus architecture (soon we hope). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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