From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 20 12:25:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E535E14D8F; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id EAA25092; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:22:37 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <371CD378.53956902@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:20:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver for alpha (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > > Jordan, you said nowadays one can simply compile a kernel < 1.44Mb and > stick it on the disk kern.flp? It is possible. Even more, you can add kld modules to that disk, and then edit loader.rc to load them too, so you don't even need to compile a kernel. > People could appreciate this. I for one would like to make demo floppies > to send to companies having supplied devices for USB support to show > their devices at work. So, anyone up for creating a web page generating custom kern.klp disks, with features not found in GENERIC, using a cgi script? :-) If you limit this to adding kld modules, it would be surprisingly easy to do it. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message