From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 10 13:00:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24858 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA24753 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yCW7s-0003bK-00; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:59:52 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:59:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Terry Lambert cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT in GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199803101959.MAA08570@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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 do not know what/do not have a DPT controller'' is not a valid > > objection. > > Did you build a boot floppy, and verify that it doesn't make the > kernel too large to fit or interfere with using the floppy to > install a FreeBSD system? I doubt it, unless something else has bloated GENERIC lately. Simon has been making boot floppies with GENERIC and the dpt driver on them for some time. The DPT card handles almost all SCSI processing on the card, so the driver seems pretty simple. > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message