christos@ wrote: > | - there are so many ramdisk lists > | - some ports still have 1440KB restriction due to installation floppy > > These are detected during build...
It is a bit annoying to shrink ever growing kernels... sun2 and sun3 have size restriction due to bootloader, for example. (Of course I know these poor ports should retire in near future) > | - few people will bother to maintain such lists just for installer > | > | The point of my PR is "unfortunately we always lack man power," > | as no one have take a look at the problem even after 6.0. > | > | If you can sweep all image list files and kernel config files > | without regressions, it's fine for me. > > There is no way to test many of those things. What I was suggesting was: > > 1. kill ipty from all the MAKEDEV lists > 2. add mount(PTYFS) to sysinst. > 3. add file-system PTYFS to all the kernels. > > If the floppies fit, then it has a good chance to work... What can go wrong? > (famous last words) The "3. add file-system PTYFS to all the kernels" seems a bit hard as we saw on PR/46812 and PR/47123 (we had to add ipty or opty into all MD MAKEDEV). I can see your reasonable goal, but we need to consider pros and cons. That's all. --- Izumi Tsutsui
