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From: Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@cgu.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c
In-Reply-To: <199905261625.SAA21419@ceia.nordier.com> from Robert Nordier at "May 26, 99 06:25:04 pm"
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Hello,

> You're thinking of dosboot (fbsdboot.exe): biosboot is just the
> old boot1 and boot2.
> 
> The issue with dosboot is that it hasn't changed in four years,
> and it can't be built with the FreeBSD toolchain; so there's no
> real real reason for keeping it in the source tree.
> 
> Like other DOS programs useful for FreeBSD (fdimage.exe or fips.exe,
> for instance), fbsdboot.exe can always be made available in the
> 
>     pub/FreeBSD/tools
> 
> on ftp.freebsd.org (and mirror sites, CD-ROMs, etc).

  Ok. This will be done?
  So we can expect appearing of this utility (I mean dosboot.exe for ELF
kernels) at near future in tools and removing it from main source tree?

> So deleting it from the source tree won't make matters any worse
> ... and may even improve them, since it allows some DOS programmer
> without commit priviledges to actually maintain it.
  Who is that "DOS programmer"?


Sincerely yours, Andy

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