Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

["Miguel Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/3/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :
> :>     Include ALTQ in generic?  Hmm. I would personally rather not, unless
> :>     a really good case is made for including it.
> :
> :The only reason why I say this is the fact that many would like to use BSD flavors as home routers with transfer rate limiting, and regular lines don't require a too powerful computer, an 586 or 686 will do (we were NATing 10Mbit with a PI-133 and 48M EDO RAM.) On these machines, kernel building takes hours.
>
>     Well... you do the build on a faster machine and copy the binary?

that requires some other dfly machine, does it not?


> :>     We *are* including
> :>     kernel sources on the ISO now, so perhaps a better solution would
> :>     be to create a section on how to set up a kernel build infrastructure
> :>     given just a freshly installed ISO.
> :
> :Do you mean the nativekernel target?
> :
> :--
> :Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars@gmail.com>
>
>     Yes.  It should theoretically only require the sources tar'd up on the CD
>     to build a new kernel.  That is one of the things that we have to test
>     for this release... can you unpack the sources stored on the ISO in a
>     chroot'd environment and actually build the kernel without the rest of
>     /usr/src ?  Inquiring minds want to know!
>
>                                         -Matt


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Miguel Sousa Filipe