Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Fri Oct 01 2004 at 14:16:08 +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Fri Oct 01 2004 at 17:33:21 +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > > Create an ecoff kernel only if WANT_ECOFF="yes".
> > > 
> > > ECOFF kernels are really only useful for netbooting; our disk bootloader 
> > > handles
> > > ELF.  Therefore, define WANT_ECOFF for INSTALL32_IP2x only.
> > 
> > Does anyone run their sgimips boxes completely diskless?  I've not got
> > any SGI boxes myself, but most of my pmaxen run diskless.  ECOFF kernels
> > are built all the time for pmax.
> 
> Yes.  However, this is the INSTALL kernel, and if I install/run diskless,
> I use GENERIC.  We already need a billion kernels for sgimips, no harm
> in trying to cut down on the useless ones ;)

Ok, um, bleh, I got it backwards.  No, I don't agree with this change.

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>                     Of course he runs 
NetBSD
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/                          http://www.NetBSD.org/
                   "data goes in; management comes out"