From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 10 12:35:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19537 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from set.spradley.tmi.net (set.spradley.tmi.net [207.170.107.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19483 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net) Received: from localhost (set.spradley.tmi.net) [127.0.0.1] by set.spradley.tmi.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yCWFm-0000KT-00; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:08:02 -0600 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT in GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:07:47 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:08:02 -0600 From: Ted Spradley Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there any objection for the DPT driver being added to the GENERIC kernel > configuration and thus being available on the standard boot floppy? I don't have any objection to the DPT driver in GENERIC if it doesn't break anything else, but I do object to this: > > ``I do not know what/do not have a DPT controller'' is not a valid > objection. The reason I object is this: > > The DPT driver allows FreeBSD users the use of a family of SCSI RAID > controllers which are typically used in high end servers. For details ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'd bet that folks who've got these DPT things don't often run GENERIC kernels on their high-end servers, and probably don't have too much trouble getting FreeBSD installed on those high-end servers even though the GENERIC kernel lacks a driver they need. The GENERIC kernel has to fit on the boot floppy that's used to do an initial installation on a machine that's the only computer in the building, and not connected to any network. As long as adding the DPT driver doesn't adversely effect that, then fine, add it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message