From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 18: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AA037B419 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fBT21iG16586; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:01:44 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:01:44 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? Message-ID: <20011228180144.A16191@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu>; from bfoz@glue.umd.edu on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I noticed the thread a little while ago about shrinking the kernel to > get it on the release floppies (was that here or on hackers?) and splash > seems like a good candidate for the chopping block. AFAICT it's not > required if you don't want a splash screen and the install disks aren't > set up for a default splash screen. I just tried making a kernel without > splash and it seems to work fine, in fact I'm writing this email on the > same machine. Of course, I've only been running this kernel for a few > minutes so I guess something bad could crop up. Is there any reason its > included in GENERIC? It's a feature people want enabled by default. It's not on the floppy because it's removed from GENERIC by src/release/scripts/dokern.sh. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8LSQGXY6L6fI4GtQRAsq5AJ9CnjWxdYez4+Yr8MEptf93TtP2rQCfbG32 TmmJd8cEFRcH8cSeEtvQcW4= =QMll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message