Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:29:00 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c Message-ID: <199509301829.LAA29846@aslan.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:36:14 PDT." <20710.812482574@time.cdrom.com>
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>> But there won't be a month or two more of alpha and beta testing for >> 2.1. It should stay in current. It's completely new and not currently >> working code, it breaks all rules for 2.1 to bring it into stable. > >There has been some misunderstanding. The ATAPI code will not be >enabled in the boot floppy. It will be enabled in a new >`ide_cdboot.flp' file (or whatever I decide to call it). It's >just there to give some alternative to those now many thousands >of people with IDE CDROMs out there who would otherwise be left >high and dry and none to happy about it. > > Jordan Are you making the kernel into a separate distribution so that the installed kernel has ATAPI support in it for those who boot with the ide_cdboot.flp? -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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