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Date:      Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:24:30 -0700
From:      freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: import NetBSD rc system
Message-ID:  <20010616012430.B39762@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141146040.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>; from gordont@bluemtn.net on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700
References:  <200106141814.f5EIEOV15979@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141146040.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> >From diving through it all, there will be a fair amount of departure from
> the NetBSD stuff at least up through network init. This is just due to the
> inherent differences in the OSs. Where there was departure, I took the
> current FreeBSD boot scripts and turned them into modules so as to make it
> very similar to the current system.

What about adding the typical "test foo" logic to the NetBSD files to
handle both OS's?

> I did make one change that I
> think will be helpful, I moved pccard initialization to before the
> mounting of /usr (but after mounting /var). This way people can use pccard
> for mounting filesystems from /etc/fstab which I don't think you can do
> now. Anyone have any objections to this move?

Yes, it departs from the NetBSD scripts.  Please see if LukeM will agree
with this change.  If not, I would like to see consensus we need/want
this change at this point in time.


> it would require moving
> pccardd and pccardc to /sbin, but that should be it.

pccardd is dying in 5.0-R according to Warner.  RCng will never be MFCed
to RELENG_4, so this is a mute point.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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