From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 21 10:47:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED6C37B40A; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keichii@iteration.net) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CBCA859228; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:47:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:47:14 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Omachonu Ogali , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and mdconfig Message-ID: <20010621124714.C68704@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Luigi Rizzo , Omachonu Ogali , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010621105232.B15323@subtopia.informationwave.net> <200106211618.SAA50566@info.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106211618.SAA50566@info.iet.unipi.it>; from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:18:47PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo scribbled: | would you mind resubmitting a patch for the version of | "picobsd" i committed this morning, also keeping in mind the | following: | | * it would be better to define a variable, say MD, which holds | the string "vn" or "md", and is used in accessing the memory | device, so we have mostly the same script working on both current | and stable with just a one-line change. | | * you are recursively gzipping files in /etc now, so you should | also modify the mfs_tree/etc/rc script which decompresses things; | This might be annoying as gzip is unable to recurse in a | directory tree. | | * re. the CONFIG variable... it does not seem to give problem with | the version i committed this morning. I think there was a bug | in the previous commit, but now it should be ok. | | * i am not sure the way you handle arguments is correct, from your | patch it appears that you ignore THETYPE (first argument) if there | are not two arguments. This is wrong, the second argument is optional. I have more questions regarding this: * Do we want NO_SWAPPING on or off in PicoBSD? I understand that many PicoBSD devices do not have swapspace. However, my understand of -current is that we do require swapping to work well. * Do we want SOFTUPDATES? * Statically compiling device.hints seems to be awkward. Perhaps we should be using a customized /boot/device.hints. This way, many devices can be disabled or enabled easily without recompiling PicoBSD/xxxx version -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@iteration.net | keichii@freebsd.org | | http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message