Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:42:45 +0900 From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: riccardo@torrini.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 kern.flp flooding again Message-ID: <20030217184245R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030217092427.GA20732@trudy.torrini.home> References: <20030216204544U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030216210359E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030217092427.GA20732@trudy.torrini.home>
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riccardo> Is this stuff really needed on a boot floppy? Maybe we can leave riccardo> only I486_CPU? What about removing also device eisa and/or bpf? riccardo> (I'm just curious, don't expect to be an expert :-) The bpf is required for DHCP client. We cannot remove it, or cannot network install FreeBSD via fetch-IPv4-address-by-DHCP-only network. I doubt if we can already livin' IPv6-only network :-) I have no idea about eisa; I don't have any (PCs and cards). But if eisa is removed, we lost some users who has EISA-based PCs so it may be avoided. Note that both devices cannot load as a kernel module at this time; removing these devices means that we cannot use them for installation. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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