Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:26:58 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: riccardo@torrini.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 kern.flp flooding again Message-ID: <20030217102657.GG98225@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030217184245R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20030216204544U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030216210359E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20030217092427.GA20732@trudy.torrini.home> <20030217184245R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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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
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