Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:45 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/sparc64 dokern.sh Message-ID: <XFMail.20030731135945.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731161109.GA77736@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 31-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:40:45AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> ru 2003/07/30 00:40:45 PDT
>>
>> FreeBSD src repository
>>
>> Modified files:
>> release Makefile
>> Removed files:
>> release/sparc64 dokern.sh
>> Log:
>> Embed a simplistic version of the dokern.sh script directly into
>> release/Makefile.
>
> Why is this needed?? Would you PLEASE STOP special casing everything in
> the release Makefiles so they are so hard to read?? We were very
> orthogonal that every platform had an {ARCH}/dokern.sh -- even if it was
> a very simple one-liner.
The removal of dokern.sh does seem to be of very dubious benefit.
Actually, what I think should happen is that if dokern.sh doesn't
exist, then we shouldn't even bother building a BOOTMFS kernel
and should just use the default kernel instead.
--
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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