From owner-freebsd-commit Sun Sep 24 13:27:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12382 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:27:04 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12364 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:27:00 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12354 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:26:57 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA12340 ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:26:43 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA08615; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 14:28:51 -0600 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 14:28:51 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199509242028.OAA08615@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: <1680.811973876@time.cdrom.com> References: <199509230138.TAA06228@rocky.sri.MT.net> <1680.811973876@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > By adding PCVT to the kernel we get the ability to install on > > ThinkPad's. By adding the SysV stuff we don't install on any more > > hardware, but allow a commercial program to run. However, the > > commercial program is not run during the install, so the kernel > > installed on the HD would be adequate. > > Unfortunately, the kernel installed on the HD is the same one. It's *not* the same one as the install kernel. The boot kernel contains the MFS_ROOT stuff, which makes that kernel completely different than the HD kernel, although as it stands currently they are almost the same. > We'd need to go for "boot generic" and "run generic" before this > concept would work. Hmm. Using the patches I sent to you earlier, we remove the SYSV stuff from the boot kernel while still keeping it in the HD kernel. We *do* have a 'boot generic' and a 'run generic' kernel in the current scheme, although they aren't that different (yet). Nate