cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Fri Mar 26 12:37:36 PST 2004


On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:45 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:00:20PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:19:28PM -0800, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> > > obrien      2004/03/24 19:19:28 PST
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/amd64/conf       GENERIC
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add NTFS since many may want to dual-boot MS-Win64 w/FreeBSD.
> >
> > Wait, isn't NTFS support available via module on amd64?  I fail to
> > see why NTFS support should be compiled into kernel when ntfs.ko
> > would be loaded automagically upon users mount_ntfs(8)ing their
> > Win64 partition.
>
> modules are not yet implemented on amd64 (because they require
> extensive binutils changes, I believe).
>
> Kris

For the record, I've been working on this for a few days.
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