Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 09:53:03 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: alpha@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, re-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My take at unbreaking releases for 5.1 Message-ID: <20030517065303.GB23902@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC5747D.9030507@btc.adaptec.com> References: <20030516071037.GB67956@sunbay.com> <3EC490B4.6080506@btc.adaptec.com> <3EC5747D.9030507@btc.adaptec.com>
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--rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:30:05PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > I'm moving this over to the alpha mailing list for comment. In short, > the alpha release build is overflowing the install floppies. Ruslan's > fix is to remove the cd and acd drivers with the theory that if the > user doesn't boot off of the CD during install, they probably won't > use the CD at all during the install. Is this reasonable? We would > like comments relatively quickly as having Alpha releasable for > 5.1-BETA2 is highly desirable. Another angle that will be tested this > weekend is to de-inline the mutex functions to slim down the kernel. > That should save a few 10's of kilobytes, though it's unclear if this > will allow the cd and acd drivers to be restored. >=20 The latest patch is available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ru/patches/release.patch Note that it also deals with the "bsdlabel(8) missing on the fixit floppy" problem. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+xdxPUkv4P6juNwoRAr+fAJ99exsqXPzfpF4sK+bxPgwPk7lRigCdG1pP nlNHFXg62a1cbnPyJJnFp8o= =7Bmo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--
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