From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 11 20:52:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AD4D1521B for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 6633 invoked from network); 12 Apr 1999 03:50:21 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 12 Apr 1999 03:50:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some ideas on the evolution of -CURRENT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Apr 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Hey gang, > > Here are a few ideas I have running around my head about things I'd > love to see happen to -CURRENT: > > - Insert Your Favorite Vapor Feature: ____________________________ OK: 1) A method to communicate successful boot (persistence) between the kernel and the bootblocks, so if a newly built kernel fails to boot, it drops back to the older kernel, and reboots with it. 2) The more NFS fixes the better. 3) Working DOS fbsdboot.exe (for 3.1 stable actually, but -current would be fine. :) 4) PXE boot environment support ala intel 5) PAM enhancements to make PAM support full-featured. 6) As many devices moved to KLD's as possible. 7) The return of the single floppy boot (perhaps via building more than 1 GENERIC. :()) 8) More of the tweaks, knobs, and frobs documented, and as many as possible made into sysctl's. 9) A extension credential mechanism that only allows certain binaries access to certain files... :) 10) ACL's ala Domain/OS 11) Movement of SMB support into the kernel, rather than a user process for maximum performance. (Gotta kick NT's butt, and wouldn't mind dusting Linux in the process). OK, I'm done for now... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message