From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 09:08:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FB237B401; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD53443F85; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6NG7W0U017874 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:07:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6NG7UnR017865; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:07:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:07:30 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Jake Burkholder Message-ID: <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com> References: <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@FreeBSD.org cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:08:04 -0000 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, > Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; >=20 > > A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is > > attached, please review. The net effect is that we save > > huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless > > boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script > > doesn't need it). >=20 > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk > from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an > option. >=20 OK, then things will be left as is. There's already an option for this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage). Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/HrLCUkv4P6juNwoRAq8oAJ9PhBzNnFcrYKOXrydBY7+E7zvgRgCeJPgv iS+0Rz21NDRaRfPYqfPe5zs= =SI0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--