Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:50:12 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: andy@cgu.chel.su (Andrey Zakhvatov) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier), sobomax@altavista.net, 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: <199905272050.WAA26601@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199905271717.XAA20981@mail.cgu.chel.su> from Andrey Zakhvatov at "May 27, 1999 11:17:22 pm"
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> > 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? It should be removed shortly, and there seems no reason it shouldn't appear in tools. I don't use it myself, but I'll see if I can track down the source changes for the latest version, and ask someone with ftp.freebsd.org access to put it there. > > 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"? I believe Carlos C. Tapang <ctapang@easystreet.com> has done some recent work on it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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