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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!sdd.hp.com!portal.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.2/2.0 planning [was Re: bounce buffer support yet?] Date: 21 Apr 1994 10:28:50 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 43 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr21102850@smspde.ilo.dec.com> References: <2p4k9b$p67@news.ysu.edu> <xO2uzYl.dysonj@delphi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: smspde.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: John Dyson's message of Wed, 20 Apr 94 23:38:29 -0500 In article <xO2uzYl.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes: features of our VM system plus 4.4lite. I think that we are thinking about kernel update snapshots, but I am not really in the release loop. Actually, no. The next release will be 1.2/2.0 (depending on what decisions we make regarding rolling the first `unencumbered' release out the door). We can't actually do _any_ more releases with the current 1.1 code, even a `fixit' snapshot, since part of my agreement with USL was that this would be the LAST Net/2 based release, and no sneaking around it with incremental upgrades (still based on Net/2 code) or anything. The currently envisioned model is as follows: FreeBSD 2.0: Fully 4.4 LITE based, this code is unencumbered. FreeBSD 1.2: FreeBSD 1.1 with only the necessary parts of 4.4 pulled over to unencumber it. This release will only happen if we have the resources, which is hard to say (just doing 2.0 will be hard enough). Anyone wishing to help out should, by all means, contact us at: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com We are an open development team! It is this fact regarding upgrades that prompted us to be _very_ conservative with 1.1 Release. Your favorite feature may not be in there, but we at least havea good confidence in its stability! -current :-). BTW, I think that we have added the ability to boot on a > 16MB system given an ISA SCSI bus-mastering adaptor. This is true. FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA and RELEASE only use the lower 16Mb of memory at installation time. Afterwards, if you've got the kind of machine that allows true >16MB operation (not requiring bounce buffers), you can simply recompile and reboot a kernel to get all your memory back. Additionally, if you're brave (:-) you can always upgrade to FreeBSD-current and get the bounce buffers, in addition to quite a few other things. You should read the FreeBSD-current section of the FAQ for more information on this. Jordan