From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 17 2:27: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4D937B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C289443FAF for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1HAR0Uc003722 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:27:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1HAQxFO030441 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:26:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1HAQwMS098934; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:26:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1HAQwZC098933; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:26:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:26:58 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: riccardo@torrini.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 kern.flp flooding again Message-ID: <20030217102657.GG98225@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20030216204544U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030216210359E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030217092427.GA20732@trudy.torrini.home> <20030217184245R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030217184245R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:42:45PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > 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. What about some uncommon ISA scsi controllers like stg and ncv? Both are available as a module. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message