From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:15:39 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a22gnb$c2s$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020115145324.A5772@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201151514090.5892-100000@xanadu.home> <20020115151804.A6308@thyrsus.com>
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>Rob Landley pointed out correctly that the vitality flag was not
>actually solving this problem, and it was an ugly wart on the
>language. Instead, there's a symbol property "BOOTABLE" in the new
>rulebase that is attached to IDE and SCSI hardware symbols that are
>controllers for what could be boot devices.
Wasn't this SunOS (Larry?): "Can't boot a typewriter."
Actually, some can. Or maybe their current incarnation, the serial port.
Will you make every thinkable device "BOOTABLE"? USB?
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 19:53 CML2-2.1.3 is available Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 20:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-01-15 20:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 20:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-01-15 19:19 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-16 3:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 6:29 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-01-16 6:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 7:13 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-01-16 6:36 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 0:15 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2002-01-15 20:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-15 20:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 19:30 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-16 3:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 20:25 ` Russell King
2002-01-15 19:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-17 1:18 ` Val Henson
2002-01-21 16:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-21 17:05 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-21 23:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-22 6:29 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-23 21:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 0:38 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-01-15 20:26 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-01-16 4:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 16:38 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-01-16 16:59 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-01-16 18:29 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-18 18:32 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-01-22 5:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 20:27 ` Robert Love
2002-01-15 21:09 ` David Lang
2002-01-16 15:06 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-16 21:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 21:56 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-16 21:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-17 1:26 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-17 1:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-17 8:53 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-17 13:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-17 14:09 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-17 14:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 23:36 ` David Lang
2002-01-18 6:48 ` Kai Henningsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-22 9:11 [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-22 9:20 ` Keith Owens
[not found] <fa.d4sn1fv.b78io8@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.i3p6mlv.1mg2frl@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-22 10:09 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-22 10:25 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-22 10:48 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-22 10:53 ` Keith Owens
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