Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:54:12 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh Message-ID: <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010721204314.A19196@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:43:14PM %2B0200 References: <200107211738.f6LHckO97874@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010721195231.A18836@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721111928.A97882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721204314.A19196@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:43:14PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:19:28AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:52:31PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Dare I suggest to have dokern.sh remove: > > > options DEC_KN8AE # AlphaServer 8200/8400 (Turbolaser) > > > > We would actually like to support these machines in 5.0. *Especially* > > since we'll have working SMP. In light of that, do you still feel we > > should remove Turbolaser support? > > From the *floppy* yes. Not in a generic sense. Actually I don't know if the TurboLaser even has a floppy drive. Can we wait to hear Matt Jacob's opinion? > If dropping support becomes an issue I would also throw out DEC3000-series > altogether (now someone will go for my throat for sure). Oh, that's been cut out of the install floppy for quite some time. > The (nasty) alternative is to have multiple bootfloppies for alpha, > selectable per machine type. Not nice.. Not really all that nasty if we really need it. Although another approach would be to add a third boot floppy where the loader has 4th code to load every module on the floppy (much like NT does). Then we could add back all the bits w/o corresponding modules. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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