From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 21 10:54:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771B337B403; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA50895; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:50:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200106211750.TAA50895@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: picobsd and mdconfig In-Reply-To: <20010621124714.C68704@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at "Jun 21, 2001 12:47:14 pm" To: "Michael C . Wu" Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Omachonu Ogali , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * 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. given that in the vast majority of cases you don't have a choice... > * Do we want SOFTUPDATES? same as above. who cares, the memory fs is mostly readonly, and secondary storage is generally unavailable. > * Statically compiling device.hints seems to be awkward. if i am not mistaken, it is the bootloader which should read the hints, but in picobsd there is no bootloader, so we have no other choice. I doubt this is a big issue, anyways, most hardware is PnP these days. flexibility is good, but reality (with its constraints) comes first :) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message