Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:00:15 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? Message-ID: <3C2E914F.5A6945F5@glue.umd.edu> References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> <20011228180144.A16191@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > > 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. I had always assumed that GENERIC was put on the floppies unmodified. Thanks for clearing that up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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