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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:46:42 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers.
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to.
> >
> >
> > 5) Remove the d_maj field from struct cdevsw entirely and make
> > dynamic allocation the default.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> 
> Sounds right to me..
> (I assume there are no NFS related gotchas)


Will it still be possible to manually create device nodes, such
that you will be able to NFS boot OS's other than FreeBSD, hosted
by a FreeBSD NFS server (e.g. Darwin, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64)?

Thanks,
-- Terry

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