From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 19 18: 5:18 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.199.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19708152CE; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (tanimura@localhost.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-rina.r-0.1-11.01.2000) with ESMTP id LAA47492; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:05:06 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:05:01 +0900 Message-ID: <14470.27981.737324.29321F@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> From: Seigo Tanimura To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha HARDWARE.TXT src/release/texts/i386 HARDWARE.TXT In-Reply-To: In your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:29:06 +0100" <20000117232905.C5824@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <200001150625.WAA20461@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000115110114.A53766@yedi.iaf.nl> <14466.56531.14048.11700X@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000117232905.C5824@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: Seigo Tanimura User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.0.3 (Notorious) SEMI/1.13.4 (Terai) FLIM/1.12.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Y=FEzaki?=) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 8) (Bryce Canyon) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Digital Library Research Division, Information Techinology Centre, The University of Tokyo MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.4 - "Terai") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:29:06 +0100, Wilko Bulte said: Wilko> Will I be shot if I propose the following: Wilko> - (mostly) remove the section "2. Supported configurations" from both Wilko> i386/alpha RELNOTES.TXT and insert a pointer to the HARDWARE.TXT file? Wilko> This keeps all supported h/w stuff in one file (HARDWARE.TXT) and reduces Wilko> the chance that things go out of sync. Wilko> - move the i386/HARDWARE.TXT to release/texts (so one level down) Wilko> and take that as the starting point for the 'generic' HARDWARE.TXT Wilko> With i386 being the leading port of FreeBSD this can be taken as the Wilko> reference, reducing the need to completely overhaul the HARDWARE.TXT Wilko> This file then will be the master file in which all new supported hardware Wilko> is listed. Wilko> - create a alpha/HARDWARE.TXT which contains the specifics for the Wilko> specific platform. So, this file contains the things that are not supported Wilko> on alpha, and the Alpha hardware overview I wrote over the last couple of Wilko> weeks (currently named release/alpha/ALPHAHW.TXT) Wilko> - change release/Makefile to concat the HARDWARE.TXT files and put them in Wilko> the right release-areas. These sound good. We just print out the appropriate HARDWARE.TXTs, run to a PC shop and purchase a new card. -- Seigo Tanimura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message