From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Jan 15 16:13:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2AE37B405 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25890 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 00:13:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2002 00:13:06 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:12:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Murray Stokely Subject: RE: RC2 Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Jan-02 Murray Stokely wrote: > I'd like to release RC2 sometime in the next 36 hours or so. I've > made numerous builds since RC1, but all of them have had at least some > kind of known issue, so I would prefer to wait until we can put out a > real "Release Candidate". That said, the release engineers could sure > use help with the following things : > > 1) x86 floppy overflow. The Linux module requires sysvipc, but > this has not been made into a module on -STABLE. There are a > number of possible solutions. > > a. MFC the module code. (Large impact, risky.) > > b. Put sysvipc back in the boot kernel, and remove other > features or devices. (safest, but what to remove?) > > c. Put sysvipc back in the boot kernel, and accept one of > Matt or Ian's patches to remove macro bloat. (nice > solution, but a little risky to touch NFS code and other > area this late in the cycle). > > 2) Building X on the Alpha. The 3.3.6a patch causes all kinds of > problems on the Alpha architecture. I can commit the first hunk to turn on the SYSCONS define. However, XFree86 still insists on building I386 only drivers such as the i128 driver even though I explicitly turn them off. Grrr. > Any ideas? Thanks, > > - Murray -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message