Subject: Re: Again: NCR53c810 + 2.0.0 in Debian

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 12:06 PDT

[regarding the 53c7,8xx driver object being 230K in size]
> Ahh okay, but then how did we used to fit it? Is the bsd driver any
> smaller possibly? It doesn't have support for the 7xx series so it may
> be smaller.

I don't know anything about other 53c8xx drivers.
I think the solution is to go to an initrd-based boot floppy
as RedHat is now using, and let the user load in as many modules floppies
as they need.

	Bruce
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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Howell)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:09:54 +0800 (WST)

Bruce Perens writes:
> 
> 
> > I'm still having trouble understanding why ncr810 support isn't on the
> > standard boot disk, it's about the most common scsi controller there is
> > now a days, surely there is something less important we can remove.
> 
> Note the size of the driver:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       231500 Jul 14 18:53 53c7,8xx.o
> 
> It's not like you'd have to remove something to fit it in. You'd have
> to remove 10 or 20 somethings.

Ahh okay, but then how did we used to fit it? Is the bsd driver any smaller
possibly? It doesn't have support for the 7xx series so it may be smaller.

Andrew

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