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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:47:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030219014824S.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Makoto Matsushita wrote:

> We've got 4736 bytes; it can be back again since there's 3kbytes space
> before my last commit IIRC. 

Thanks!

> But we must keep going to put more drivers away... 
> 
> Speaking about SCSI/SCSI RAID drivers, is there any reason that must
> stay on the floppy's kernel?  It cannot be used if these are loaded as a
> kernel module?  SCSI/SCSI RAID users, do you know something about that? 

I think that most drivers are on the first floppy simply because it's
there.  With the advent of a driver floppy and boot-from-CD, assuming
drivers can properly handle being loaded as modules, we should definitely
prefer modules over direct linking from now on for the floppy install.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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