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>jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU said:
>> I think we should remove all support for Sun's non-standard boot
>> suppport from NetBSD kernels[*]
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>btw, what happened to Gordon? If he doesn't speak up in reply
>to this heresy, we'd have to worry...

Mattias, I explicity said, except for Suns where the proms need it.
Did you miss the footnote -- you quoted the pointer to it-- or are you
trying to incite a flamewar :)?


>However, the selection os bootp / bootparam is already a kernel
>option - this is about the best we can do here.

No, it isn't. I'm saying we should turn the rarp/bootparam option off
by default, except on hardware that needs it. And say that
prominently.  Because rarpd/bootparamd is nonstandard, it's know to be
broken in w.r.t. of netmasks, and its less well supported.  That's not
heresy; that's a fact.


>I haven't used bootparam since 1.3 either.

Yes, indeed. That's why I'm suggesting kernel configs for non-sun
boxes should turn off bootparam/rarp client support. Apart from those
broken or misdesigned machines which need it to netboot (i.e,. suns).