Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:50:13 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/59896: trm driver is not in GENERIC Message-ID: <200312021450.hB2EoD97022506@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/59896; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/59896: trm driver is not in GENERIC Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:43:24 -0800 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:41:53AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I guess that there are a number of other drivers that may be required > in the install floppy for specific machines, and they are not there due > to lack of space. (perhaps?) > I would suggest that the FreeBSD release team consider releasing > a total of 2 kern.flp floppy disk images. The first is the "normal" > install image. The second is an alternate image that contains an > alternate kernel, which carries the drivers that are missing from > the main one. Most people would of course continue to use the > normal kern.flp file to install FreeBSD from, and only people with > "weird" hardware would use the alternate kernel. Erm..don't we already do this? Looking at release/i386/drivers.conf I see that the trm driver is included on drivers.flp. Kris --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/zKULWry0BWjoQKURAp/gAKDHUy2sRLqaFSeKx8SNn9QYEYbNmwCgpNu4 7zlJBn42I/idZF9YcwNbdOc= =iCTK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--
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