Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/01/2004 14:16:47
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.
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