Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106160758380.25983-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> In-Reply-To: <20010616012430.B39762@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > 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 suppose we could do this, but the departures are more like rewrites. Again, this is all before the network init stage where things are *very* different (swap comes to mind immediately). I've written in the gaps for things we have that they don't (entropy stuff). Again, since my connectivity is dicey, it may be a week. > > 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. This was just an idea (and a bad one at that) due to the death of pccard in 5.0-R it would be silly to mess with it now. > > 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. Yup, I put in my request for devd to be in /sbin (although it still may not need to be). I also had an idea to break out the network init into several different pieces falling under 2 headings LINK (ether, atm) and NETWORK (ipx, ipv4, ipv6, atalk). I've started work on breaking everything out and was wondering if I should continue with it or if it just too much of a change. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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