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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/sparc64 dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030731135945.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030731161109.GA77736@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 31-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:40:45AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> ru          2003/07/30 00:40:45 PDT
>> 
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     release              Makefile 
>>   Removed files:
>>     release/sparc64      dokern.sh 
>>   Log:
>>   Embed a simplistic version of the dokern.sh script directly into
>>   release/Makefile.
> 
> Why is this needed??  Would you PLEASE STOP special casing everything in
> the release Makefiles so they are so hard to read??  We were very
> orthogonal that every platform had an {ARCH}/dokern.sh -- even if it was
> a very simple one-liner.

The removal of dokern.sh does seem to be of very dubious benefit.
Actually, what I think should happen is that if dokern.sh doesn't
exist, then we shouldn't even bother building a BOOTMFS kernel
and should just use the default kernel instead.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/



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