Make sure hints are statically compiled into the kernel,
because the bootloader is not available in picobsd and so the
hints file cannot be found at run time.
(This is kind of inconvenient if you have to handle non PnP devices,
but fortunately these days non-PnP ISA cards are disappearing...)
Deprecate the "global" crunch.inc file and the CRUNCHFLAGS global build
options. Tools not policy. Move these global settings out into each
picobsd distribution.
Peter's new format, and I'd added hints files for each.
The build process uses the PICOBSD.hints file as well as the config,
and additionally builds with -DNO_MODULES. The build process
probably needs to be converted to use the 'buildkernel' method
instead of running config itself.
The kernels now compile. I've not been able to test the crunch
process however because it used the vn driver and there are no
/dev/vn device nodes under devfs yet. Maybe someone else could
give it a go.
build process in too many cases. Adding mtree to bootstrap-tools
to solve this breaks the upgrade path because mtree needs a
libc that has strtofflags and fflagstostr.
. Bring PicoBSD up to date with -CURRENT reality.
. Make PicoBSD smart and not spam /dev/vn0 and /mnt. Now it uses the first
unused vn device and creates a temporary mountpoint in /tmp.
. Miscellaneous build cleanups and optimizations.
Unfortunately the bridge, isp, and router floppies are too big and need
the axe treatment. The install floppy needs updating to -CURRENT. Dial and
net build and (appear to) run OK. I will be adressing these in the
near future (unless someone beats me to it :-) ).
PR: misc/17737
Submitted by: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
slice, partition, newfs, and install FreeBSD from a tarball on a remote server.
Handy for doing mass-installs for server farms.
Documentation following shortly.
