Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:17:35 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, hosokawa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] Moving modules to MFSROOT in -STABLE (x86) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020116081642.65982A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020116115100.GX6073@windriver.com>
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Sounds good to me -- I assume all the various bugs with multiple load attempts of the modules on a sysinstall restart were long since fixed? (I think I even saw commit messages go by). We might want to ask people to add sysinstall restarts to their testing schedule (if any :-). How much room is typically free on the mfsroot floppy? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Murray Stokely wrote: > Sysinstall has had the ability to load additional modules from > /stand/modules for quite some time, but the functionality to populate > /stand/modules on the MFSROOT floppy was never MFCed. A good > description of hosokawa's drivers.conf functionality is available here > : > > http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/driver-floppy/ > > I think that we should merge this functionality for the release to > solve our floppy overflow problems. A patch for src/release/Makefile > (partial MFC of r.578) and src/release/scripts/dokern.sh, along with a > very minimal drivers.conf file can be downloaded here : > > http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/patches.html > > With this change, the wireless Ethernet devices are removed from the > boot kernel, and the modules are placed in /stand/modules of the > MFSROOT. If you switch the debug screen of sysinstall, you will > notice a couple of 'DEBUG: Loading module if_xx.ko (description)' > lines. > > I've placed kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images in my freefall patches > directory as well, in case anyone wants to play with this without > building a full release. > > Comments? Any objections to me committing this to RELENG_4 this > evening? > > Thanks, > - Murray > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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