Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:29:22 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Do we want to split release.9 into MD parts now or not? Message-ID: <20030520162922.GB68325@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030520093423.GA62969@sunbay.com> References: <20030519024518.05B402A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <20030519061401.GB40604@sunbay.com> <20030519192119.GA4267@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030519193120.GB79469@sunbay.com> <20030519221106.GA17226@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030520044418.GA34212@sunbay.com> <20030520083421.GB22249@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030520084052.GA60294@sunbay.com> <20030520084749.GA22687@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030520093423.GA62969@sunbay.com>
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:34:23PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> [Reattaching current@ as this turns out to be a normal discussion.]
Err, Why?? You seem to want to turn this into a bikeshed. Thing like
this should be coordinated, designed, and prototyped by a small group of
people and then presented. I'm not going to get into a long winded
thread with you on this in this forum.
> >>> .if ${TARGET_ARCH} == "alpha" && !defined(NO_FLOPPIES)
>
> A bandaid for Alpha kern.flp being low on space (kgzip(1)
> support would fix that).
You seem to be the only one strongly arguing for boot floppies on Alpha,
and you don't even own one [yet]. I guess they provide a fun challenge
for you, but the rest of us that do release builds have come to totally
hate them.
> >>> .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "ia64"
>
> ia64 provides the EFI boot loader; there are rumors that
> for newer ia32 machines this could also be made a case.
Won't be for Athlon PC's.
> Overall, I think that having 9 architecture ifdefs for
You forgot the whole small, and if this exists and that exists, and then
do foo. The makefile is a mess. We've been in-line ".ifdef" special
casing everything related to the floppies and CDROM boot image for too
long. We would never tolerate that in our C code.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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