Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:06:32 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "John S.Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <19980304000632.51752@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980303223001.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 10:30:01PM -0800 References: <199803040529.WAA03824@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.980303223001.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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Simon Shapiro scribbled this message on Mar 3: [...] > I retire. Warner has brought this list of ideas to the point of > perfection. Now we need to scrap it and start over, just like we do to > good, working pieces of the kernel... > > Oh, we need a special reward for this; The most re-written portion of the > system. that would have to be syscons.c closely followed by sio.c... (256 revs to syscons and 199 revs to sio.c)... p.s. Talking about sio, I have some mods that I'm going to be testing that actually make use of the AST/4 register, and should eliminate the COM_MULTIPORT option as it will only test the ports that are under that specific master... (now I just wish that my University would let me put diskless booting options in their bootp/dhcp server so I can boot this one machine diskless :(, guess I'm going to have to use PicoBSD)... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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