Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:52:11 -0500 From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net> To: "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Hackers" <Hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building PAO kernel on non-PAO system Message-ID: <199702261953.TAA172572@out1.ibm.net>
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Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> says: | | > I've got an old laptop that I'd like to run Our Favorite OS(tm) on, but it | > **definitely** requires the PAO package to sort out some laptop-esque | > "features" that Compaq decided to implement. I've got 2.1.6 loaded on the | > laptop right now (with PAO) and it works pretty well.... (Thanks, | > Hosokawa-san!) | | You could install 2.2 on it and it would *probably* work. Well, it didn't work the *last* time I tried. (About 3 months ago; Same-old Same-old with the silly sio probes failing was the biggest headache.) | One of the reasons the PAO code isn't in the FreeBSD source tree is | because it affects 'desktop' functionality. I would caution against | applying the PAO patches to the -current box. Yeah, this would be a bad idea, one of last resort. | Have you tried making a kernel with -current and seeing it it works? | The PAO patches add support for some new ethernet cards, SCSI cards, and | the Wavelan, plus make some things easier but other than that it's | pretty much the same functionality as in 2.2 and -current (modulo they | actually *document* things better. :( ) I'll try my luck with a plain vanilla 2.2-GAMMA and see what happens. (I'm not optimistic, but I may be surprised.) What does surprise me is that there isn't a *obvious* way to build kernels or, for that matter, hardware- and kernel-structure-specific apps for various architectures, versions and configurations on a single machine and distribute them to one or more "client" machines. I've run shops where this would have been a REQUIREMENT (e.g.: a farm of diskless workstations in a variety of interfaces, processors, etc...) ...sjs...
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