From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 2 21:39:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E4F1504B for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA55014; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:39:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:39:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199911030539.VAA55014@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken References: <199911030506.VAA02257@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 Great in theory, but unless someone is actually willing to do the great deal of work required to support this we're stuck with BOOTP in the kernel. Even if you were to do this most of the junk in the kernel to actually do the mounts would have to stick around. Frankly, I don't think it's such a big deal to leave it in the kernel, you wouldn't actually be cleaning much up by moving it out. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message