Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09584; Sat, 30 Sep 95 14:41:21 EDT Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11126; Sat, 30 Sep 95 14:40:53 EDT Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA10473 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:29:31 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA29846; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:29:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199509301829.LAA29846@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:36:14 PDT." <20710.812482574@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:29:00 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" >> But there won't be a month or two more of alpha and beta testing for >> 2.1. It should stay in current. It's completely new and not currently >> working code, it breaks all rules for 2.1 to bring it into stable. > >There has been some misunderstanding. The ATAPI code will not be >enabled in the boot floppy. It will be enabled in a new >`ide_cdboot.flp' file (or whatever I decide to call it). It's >just there to give some alternative to those now many thousands >of people with IDE CDROMs out there who would otherwise be left >high and dry and none to happy about it. > > Jordan Are you making the kernel into a separate distribution so that the installed kernel has ATAPI support in it for those who boot with the ide_cdboot.flp? -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================