Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 21:06:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken Message-ID: <199911030506.VAA02257@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 20:59:38 PST." <199911030459.UAA54728@apollo.backplane.com>
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> :> I am not happy at all with the rootfsid hacks I made a few months ago > :> but I didn't have time to do anything about it at the time and I had > :> to get BOOTP working again after someone left it broken for a couple > :> of weeks. > : > :Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too. > > Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS > root and swap. No; that's what the loader is for. The kernel shouldn't be doing any application-level snot like BOOTP at all. The same work was previously done by netboot; putting bootp into the kernel was _always_ the wrong idea. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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