From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 13:39:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F8C37B404; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BF643FA3; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6PKdEju039224; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6PKdE05039223; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:14 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20030725203914.GA39174@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Ruslan Ermilov , Jake Burkholder , current@FreeBSD.org, sparc64@FreeBSD.org References: <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com> <20030724185510.GB85582@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030724205010.GB90484@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030724205010.GB90484@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: current@FreeBSD.org cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:39:17 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk > > > > from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having > > > > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an > > > > option. > > > > > > OK, then things will be left as is. There's already an option for > > > this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage). > > > > BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we > > know we will *never* overflow it during "make release". > > > Should the need arise for that, it's a two-line change to release/Makefile, > by just bumping MFSSIZE and BIGBOOTSIZE for sparc64. You're missing the point. The size should be set now to something that will *never* be too small. Waiting until "make release" is broken is stupid in this case. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)