From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 12:23:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48D437B401; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF71F43F93; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6TJNh0U070560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:23:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6TJNh2l070555; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:23:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:23:43 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="l76fUT7nc3MelDdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Marcel Moolenaar cc: Wilko Bulte cc: Scott Long cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG cc: David O'Brien cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:23:53 -0000 --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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, >=20 > Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :) >=20 > The question is if the way forward is a minimini.iso so a really > minimal ISO image (<< in size that miniinst.iso) or some other mechanism > like NetBSD or ancient SunOS 3.x used. Which, IIRC, was an image one drop= ped > in to the swap area of a disk and booted from.=20 >=20 A similar technique could be used on sparc64, as was explained by Jake. That's the whole reason why boot.flp is still created on sparc64. > I'm getting comments that miniinst.iso is too big. Which I buy. >=20 Sure. > I also get comments that only ISOs aka mandatory CDboot is not > acceptable. >=20 Sure. We need to provide the loss of functionality. Please see my other reply to an earlier message in this same thread, which has more appropriate context for this. > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do. >=20 Thanks, it sure does. :-) But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed it now? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Jsm/Ukv4P6juNwoRApIuAJ9KCpKcpaB0yF6aULgekpmukcFoOACdEZUV 1qmG1BaWbmqywlYAcgG98b8= =Mj0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI--