Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:35:09 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier), cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <199905251835.UAA15165@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905251944010.19021-100000@freja.webgiro.com> from Andrzej Bialecki at "May 25, 1999 07:44:42 pm"
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > > My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel > > > ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of > > > the name. I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks. > > > > I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff, > > with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next > > few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so. > > Please don't drop the kzipboot without some functional replacement. OK. The kzip issue has come up before, and would probably have gone away by now, if it was going to go away. A new ELF-compatible kzip and kzipboot, or the old stuff stays. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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