From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Jan 15 23:18:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C23237B41C; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0G7ID630753; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:18:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:18:13 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC2 Message-ID: <20020116081813.A30692@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:36:20PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@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 Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:36:20PM -0800, 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?) I don't see why we need Linux support on the boot floppy over (say) NIC drivers. People doing floppy installs usually want to do that over the network and a NIC driver is really handy in this case ;) A lot of NIC drivers are already stripped from the boot kernel as it is right now. My ¤ 0.02 Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message