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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
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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