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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:03:49 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Noriaki Mitsunaga <non@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_dvcfg.h scsi_low.c scsi_low.h scsi_low_pisa.c scsi_low_pisa.h src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/ncv ncr53c500.c ncr53c500_pccard.c ncr53c500hw.h ncr53c500hwtab.h ncr53c500reg.h ncr53c500var.h src/sys/dev/nsp nsp.c nsp_pccard.c ...
Message-ID:  <20001024140348.B19518@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010242051.OAA19139@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:51:21PM -0600
References:  <20001024113323.A5484@hub.freebsd.org> <200010231255.FAA82239@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001024113323.A5484@hub.freebsd.org> <200010242051.OAA19139@harmony.village.org>

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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:51:21PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> It would be nice to be able to install from these devices.  They are
> rare in the US, at about the same level of rareness as the ahc 1742 in 
> the user base.  I tried to buy one on ebay and couldn't find any.

There are a lot of "it would be nices".  But we have to draw a line in
the sand...
 
> I don't know their availability in Japan.

If the don't seem that popular, maybe they should be left out of the
MFSROOT image until someone comes up with the support for a 3rd floppy of
modules (or at least supports loading some modules from the CDROM media,
or over the net).  I would think random.ko for instance (and others)
could be left out of the kernel until we were booted up to some degree.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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