Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:25:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh Message-ID: <20010721212503.A19691@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010721120709.A98665@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:07:09PM -0700 References: <200107211738.f6LHckO97874@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010721195231.A18836@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721111928.A97882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721204314.A19196@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721205905.A19446@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721120709.A98665@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:07:09PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:59:05PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > We would actually like to support these machines in 5.0. *Especially* > > > > > since we'll have working SMP. In light of that, do you still feel we > > > > > should remove Turbolaser support? > > > > > > > > From the *floppy* yes. Not in a generic sense. > .. > > Depends what TL you have. Some have a fd, some don't (like the AS8400 > > I 'have'). All of them have a CD drive. So axing the TL from the floppy > > is not an issue. > > At the moment, we use the floppy install kernel as the bootable CD kernel > also. So we don't have the granularity of removing support for something Duh.. I always thought the CD kernel was a different one. > from just one or the other. I am working with JKH on growing that > support however. Sounds worthwhile to me. > > I know, but I would even support dropping the Turbochannel boxes altogether. > > I actually was going to draft a letter to freebsd-alpha to test the > waters on that today. :-) You at least got yourself one supporter here :) The only side-remark I have is that now that Tru64 will stop support TC based machines with/after (I forgot which) as of release 5.1a we will see a lot of used TC stuff on the market. TC boxes are quite a bit more capable than the Multia/Noname... :) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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