On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote: > > Firewire is > > > > - a significant security risk > > - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems > > - rapidly becoming obsolete > > - available as a module > > > > The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any > > serious objections before I commit it to head? > > > > DES > > Hi DES > > Would dcons over firewire still work in GENERIC, with firewire as a module? > > Cheers > > Tom Yes, dcons would still work. I routinely use dcons with firewire as a module for debugging on PowerPC. I have no issue with removing it on PowerPC. Every situation I can think of (dcons, booting from firewire disk) I've already tested with firewire as a module, and my custom kernels will continue to have it built by default anyway. - Justin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
