Subject: misc/31511: raid.4 out of date list booting architectures
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <collver@peak.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/08/2005 16:43:00
>Number: 31511
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: raid.4 out of date list booting architectures
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 08 16:43:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: collver@peak.org
>Release: NetBSD
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The raid.4 manual says:
RAID file systems which are
automatically configured are also eligible to be the root file system.
There is currently only limited support (alpha, i386, pmax, sparc,
sparc64, and vax architectures)
The amd64 architecture should be added to this list.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: raid.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/share/man/man4/raid.4,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 raid.4
--- raid.4 20 Jun 2005 13:25:24 -0000 1.31
+++ raid.4 8 Oct 2005 16:41:09 -0000
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@
autoconfigurable, in which case it will be configured automatically
during the kernel boot process. RAID file systems which are
automatically configured are also eligible to be the root file system.
-There is currently only limited support (alpha, i386, pmax, sparc,
-sparc64, and vax architectures)
+There is currently only limited support (alpha, amd64, i386, pmax,
+sparc, sparc64, and vax architectures)
for booting a kernel directly from a RAID 1 set, and no support for
booting from any other RAID sets. To use a RAID set as the root
file system, a kernel is usually obtained from a small non-RAID