Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:12:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: RC2 Message-ID: <XFMail.020115161223.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com>
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On 15-Jan-02 Murray Stokely wrote: > I'd like to release RC2 sometime in the next 36 hours or so. I've > made numerous builds since RC1, but all of them have had at least some > kind of known issue, so I would prefer to wait until we can put out a > real "Release Candidate". That said, the release engineers could sure > use help with the following things : > > 1) x86 floppy overflow. The Linux module requires sysvipc, but > this has not been made into a module on -STABLE. There are a > number of possible solutions. > > a. MFC the module code. (Large impact, risky.) > > b. Put sysvipc back in the boot kernel, and remove other > features or devices. (safest, but what to remove?) > > c. Put sysvipc back in the boot kernel, and accept one of > Matt or Ian's patches to remove macro bloat. (nice > solution, but a little risky to touch NFS code and other > area this late in the cycle). > > 2) Building X on the Alpha. The 3.3.6a patch causes all kinds of > problems on the Alpha architecture. I can commit the first hunk to turn on the SYSCONS define. However, XFree86 still insists on building I386 only drivers such as the i128 driver even though I explicitly turn them off. Grrr. > Any ideas? Thanks, > > - Murray -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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