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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf



On Fri Oct 01 2004 at 17:33:21 +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Create an ecoff kernel only if WANT_ECOFF="yes".
> > 
> > ECOFF kernels are really only useful for netbooting; our disk bootloader 
> > handles
> > ELF.  Therefore, define WANT_ECOFF for INSTALL32_IP2x only.
> 
> Does anyone run their sgimips boxes completely diskless?  I've not got
> any SGI boxes myself, but most of my pmaxen run diskless.  ECOFF kernels
> are built all the time for pmax.

Yes.  However, this is the INSTALL kernel, and if I install/run diskless,
I use GENERIC.  We already need a billion kernels for sgimips, no harm
in trying to cut down on the useless ones ;)

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