Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:22:44 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard Makefile.inc Message-ID: <20010403112244.B29871@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3AC9828A.945262D0@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:58:02AM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104022033340.23902-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200104022132.f32LWYq15642@harmony.village.org> <3AC9828A.945262D0@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:58:02AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104022033340.23902-100000@besplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes: > > : But this can't be used early in the boot process, since it is not > > : in the root partition. It is normally in the same partition as > > : shared libraries. > > > > If you copy pccardd to /sbin you can then mount /usr on a pccard > > device. I've had a number of people with just this setup and there's > > no reason to break them. > > I agree with Warner here. Having pccardd/pccardc statically linked > is certainly *A GOOD THING* and could help when libc is hosed or > unavailable. Recently it allowed me to restore my laptop during > libc madness. Otherwise I would be unable to bring up network interface > and copy libc compiled on another machine over network. > In this case, you would probably need NOSHARED=yes in /etc/make.conf :-) > Actually I think we should consider moving it into /sbin as it is a > critical component for notebook users. > This is what I suggested in the first place, but it was rejected. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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