On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:50:23PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:49:49PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I am thinking of calling the kernel INSTALL_CD with ramdisk-cd.
> > > The kernel probably ends up being a merge of GENERIC.MPACPI INSTALL
> > > and INSTALL_LAPTOP.
> > 
> > As we have INSTALL_SMALL and _TINY, we could call it INSTALL_L, then
> > in the future we'll have XL, XXL, etc :)
> > The problem with INSTALL_CD is that the name doesn't make it clear it's
> > limited to some class of hardware. The ISO image could have both this kernel
> > and INSTALL, isn't it ?
> 
> I was desparately trying to avoid using anything to do with 'size' in the
> name.
> An alternative is to rename INSTALL => INSTALL_FLOPPY

Well, I've the same problem with INSTALL_FLOPPY: it doesn't tell us
that it's restricted to some older hardware ...

> 
> I also really don't see any point in having support for hardware that
> is unlikely to be needed for the install - especially hardware whose
> presence cannot safely be tested for (ie all non-PnP ISA cards).

INSTALL don't have much of these already isn't it ? It should only
have disk and network controllers ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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