From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 19 23:40:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3510A37B41A for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:40:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2602 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2001 07:40:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2001 07:40:49 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21470.1006241283@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:40:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , John Baldwin writes: >> >>On 19-Nov-01 John Baldwin wrote: >>> jhb 2001/11/19 13:27:00 PST >>> >>> Modified files: >>> release Makefile >>> Log: >>> Split the mfsroot out from the kernel for the 2.88 boot floppy and the >>> Alpha CD. This makes it easier to customize ISO's locally by being able >>> to replace either the mfsroot or the kernel w/o having to do both. It >>> also >>> allows us to switch to using the full GENERIC kernel when booting from CD >>> on the Alpha and on x86 when using cdboot. We don't do this yet, >>> however. >>> >>> Tested on: x86, alpha >> >>This doesn't kill write_mfs_in_kernel, but it is now no longer used. The >>only >>user of it now is picoBSD. It should probably move to /usr/bin or something >>out of src/release however. Or perhaps under src/release/picobsd. > > I think we should phase it out entirely. With the bootloader and md(4) > we have a much stronger facility which amongst other things support > gzipping of the individual files etc. I think picobsd actually tries to not use the loader so it can cram as much onto the floppy as it can fit. I think one nice feature of the custom floppy that just got killed was that it could actually use a separate floppy for the mfsroot from the kernel like kern.flp nad mfsroot.flp for installation. -- John Baldwin <>< 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message