On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:28:33PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before > > walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified > > of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't > > work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable > > future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. > > devfs support should be removed, in my opinion. There is still continuing > talk of removing it from the kernel, as distributors(us and the other guys) > have failed to support it. Certainly it will have a hard time working on any of the BSDs anytime soon, if it relies on devfs more than trivially; they have no concept of it, nor are they really likely to anytime soon. Use of /proc should also, prefferably, be limited to traditional /proc items and not the Linux view of using it as a sysctl area (though there is nothing wrong with calling 'sysctl' for such things on the BSDs, at least not on NetBSD and not that I *know* of on FreeBSD). -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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