svn commit: r325109 - head/rescue

Eitan Adler eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 29 21:21:41 UTC 2017


Author: eadler
Date: Sun Oct 29 21:21:39 2017
New Revision: 325109
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325109

Log:
  rescue: say gbye to 'boot floppies' and moderize

Modified:
  head/rescue/README

Modified: head/rescue/README
==============================================================================
--- head/rescue/README	Sun Oct 29 20:50:03 2017	(r325108)
+++ head/rescue/README	Sun Oct 29 21:21:39 2017	(r325109)
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ normally found in /bin and /sbin.
 
 These Makefiles recompile each of the crunchgen components and include
 support for overriding specific library entries.  Such techniques
-should be useful elsewhere.  For example, boot floppies could use this
-to conditionally compile out features to reduce executable size.
+should be useful elsewhere.
 
 3) Produce a toolkit suitable for small distributions.
 
@@ -27,8 +26,8 @@ system.
 
 These tools have one big disadvantage: being statically linked, they
 cannot use some advanced library functions that rely on dynamic
-linking.  In particular, nsswitch, locales, and pam are likely to all
-rely on dynamic linking in the near future.
+linking.  In particular, nsswitch, locales, and pam all
+rely on dynamic linking.
 
 
 To compile:


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