Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:18:13 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC2 Message-ID: <20020116081813.A30692@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:36:20PM -0800 References: <20020115233620.GQ6073@windriver.com>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:36:20PM -0800, 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?) I don't see why we need Linux support on the boot floppy over (say) NIC drivers. People doing floppy installs usually want to do that over the network and a NIC driver is really handy in this case ;) A lot of NIC drivers are already stripped from the boot kernel as it is right now. My ¤ 0.02 Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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