From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 29 20: 0:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.student.umd.edu (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.239.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492F037B41A for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poseidon.student.umd.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBU40F786972; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:00:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <3C2E914F.5A6945F5@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:00:15 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> <20011228180144.A16191@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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