Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:57:38 -0800 From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC2 Message-ID: <200201160557.g0G5vcT19836@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com> References: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com>
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If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote: > 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. Hi Murray-- This might not be a useful contribution, but that's never stopped me before... So...it needs all of SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG? If it only needs some of these, can we just put those on? How short are we anyways? > 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?) Hmmm. I'm probably making random noise but...could we get rid of MATH_EMULATE? Another possibility (*big* change here) would be to get rid of USERCONFIG and/or VISUAL_USERCONFIG. 4-STABLE on the i386 is the only active FreeBSD that uses it (-CURRENT doesn't have it, nor does the alpha). This is probably a bad idea because so much of our documentation refers to it, though. It wasn't until I started looking through dokern.sh that I realized how many network drivers we already exclude on the small kern floppy! > 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). Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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