From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 13:51:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org 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 6931C16A42D; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B919243D45; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:51:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA9A20AD; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -3.1/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4B220AC; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6D11233C22; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0100 (CET) To: babkin@users.sf.net References: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net> (Sergey Babkin's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:14 -0600 (CST)") Message-ID: <868xsv2nmi.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Peter Jeremy , src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Scott Long Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:51:39 -0000 Sergey Babkin writes: > 1. It's slow, since BIOSes tend to use USB 1.x speeds, and even that > not in a really fast way. So the big images are best to be > avoided. Though probably it's still faster than floppies. It is significantly faster than a floppy, and comparable to a CD when you take into account the time required to spin up the drive and the slow seek times. It is also a lot less hassle than either (at least with modern PCs which have USB connectors in front) > 2. Accessing the root filesystem - the USB drivers have to be either > statically compiled into the kernel or be loaded by the boot loader > through BIOS (maybe through an analog of initrd ram disk - I'm not > sure what advances have been done to the FreeBSD boot loader > nowadays). The required drivers are already in GENERIC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no