From owner-cvs-src Wed Feb 19 6:48:22 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CDF37B401; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B5E43F85; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h1JElvP4072694; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:48:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:47:57 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh In-Reply-To: <20030219014824S.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message