Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:17:22 +0600 (ESS) From: Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@cgu.chel.su> To: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier) Cc: andy@cgu.chel.su, sobomax@altavista.net, rnordier@nordier.com, bde@zeta.org.au, brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <199905271717.XAA20981@mail.cgu.chel.su> 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 -- Tel: +7-(3512)-38-39-73, E-mail: andy@icc.surw.chel.su WWW: http://surw.chel.su/~andy/index.html, ICQ:10705306 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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