From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Jan 15 21:57:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F3237B404; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020116055738.FTJI5944.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:57:38 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0G5vcT19836; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201160557.g0G5vcT19836@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC2 In-reply-to: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com> References: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com> Comments: In-reply-to Murray Stokely message dated "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:36:20 -0800." From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@acm.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:57:38 -0800 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 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