From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 2 21:16: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles558.castles.com [208.214.165.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFDD14E96 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02257; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911030506.VAA02257@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 20:59:38 PST." <199911030459.UAA54728@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 21:06:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :> I am not happy at all with the rootfsid hacks I made a few months ago > :> but I didn't have time to do anything about it at the time and I had > :> to get BOOTP working again after someone left it broken for a couple > :> of weeks. > : > :Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too. > > Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS > root and swap. No; that's what the loader is for. The kernel shouldn't be doing any application-level snot like BOOTP at all. The same work was previously done by netboot; putting bootp into the kernel was _always_ the wrong idea. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message