On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:42:45PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > riccardo> Is this stuff really needed on a boot floppy? Maybe we can leave > riccardo> only I486_CPU? What about removing also device eisa and/or bpf? > riccardo> (I'm just curious, don't expect to be an expert :-) > > The bpf is required for DHCP client. We cannot remove it, or cannot > network install FreeBSD via fetch-IPv4-address-by-DHCP-only network. > I doubt if we can already livin' IPv6-only network :-) > > I have no idea about eisa; I don't have any (PCs and cards). But if > eisa is removed, we lost some users who has EISA-based PCs so it may > be avoided. > > Note that both devices cannot load as a kernel module at this time; > removing these devices means that we cannot use them for installation.
What about some uncommon ISA scsi controllers like stg and ncv? Both are available as a module. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
