My take at unbreaking releases for 5.1

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:30:05PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> I'm moving this over to the alpha mailing list for comment.  In short,
> the alpha release build is overflowing the install floppies.  Ruslan's
> fix is to remove the cd and acd drivers with the theory that if the
> user doesn't boot off of the CD during install, they probably won't
> use the CD at all during the install.  Is this reasonable?  We would
> like comments relatively quickly as having Alpha releasable for
> 5.1-BETA2 is highly desirable.  Another angle that will be tested this
> weekend is to de-inline the mutex functions to slim down the kernel.
> That should save a few 10's of kilobytes, though it's unclear if this
> will allow the cd and acd drivers to be restored.
> 
The latest patch is available here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~ru/patches/release.patch

Note that it also deals with the "bsdlabel(8) missing on the fixit
floppy" problem.


Cheers,
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