kern/59896: trm driver is not in GENERIC

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59896; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/59896: trm driver is not in GENERIC
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:43:24 -0800

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 On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:41:53AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 
 >   I guess that there are a number of other drivers that may be required
 > in the install floppy for specific machines, and they are not there due
 > to lack of space.  (perhaps?)
 >   I would suggest that the FreeBSD release team consider releasing
 > a total of 2 kern.flp floppy disk images.  The first is the "normal"
 > install image.  The second is an alternate image that contains an
 > alternate kernel, which carries the drivers that are missing from
 > the main one.  Most people would of course continue to use the
 > normal kern.flp file to install FreeBSD from, and only people with
 > "weird" hardware would use the alternate kernel.
 
 Erm..don't we already do this?
 
 Looking at release/i386/drivers.conf I see that the trm driver is
 included on drivers.flp.
 
 Kris
 
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