On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > >From diving through it all, there will be a fair amount of departure from
> > the NetBSD stuff at least up through network init. This is just due to the
> > inherent differences in the OSs. Where there was departure, I took the
> > current FreeBSD boot scripts and turned them into modules so as to make it
> > very similar to the current system.
>
> What about adding the typical "test foo" logic to the NetBSD files to
> handle both OS's?
I suppose we could do this, but the departures are more like rewrites.
Again, this is all before the network init stage where things are *very*
different (swap comes to mind immediately).
I've written in the gaps for things we have that they don't (entropy
stuff). Again, since my connectivity is dicey, it may be a week.
> > I did make one change that I
> > think will be helpful, I moved pccard initialization to before the
> > mounting of /usr (but after mounting /var). This way people can use pccard
> > for mounting filesystems from /etc/fstab which I don't think you can do
> > now. Anyone have any objections to this move?
>
> Yes, it departs from the NetBSD scripts. Please see if LukeM will agree
> with this change. If not, I would like to see consensus we need/want
> this change at this point in time.
This was just an idea (and a bad one at that) due to the death of pccard
in 5.0-R it would be silly to mess with it now.
> > it would require moving
> > pccardd and pccardc to /sbin, but that should be it.
>
> pccardd is dying in 5.0-R according to Warner. RCng will never be MFCed
> to RELENG_4, so this is a mute point.
Yup, I put in my request for devd to be in /sbin (although it still may
not need to be).
I also had an idea to break out the network init into several different
pieces falling under 2 headings LINK (ether, atm) and NETWORK (ipx, ipv4,
ipv6, atalk). I've started work on breaking everything out and was
wondering if I should continue with it or if it just too much of a change.
-gordon
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