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diff --git a/share/man/man5/Makefile b/share/man/man5/Makefile index ce8c23647d09..14b9333975f4 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man5/Makefile @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ MAN= acct.5 \ device.hints.5 \ dir.5 \ disktab.5 \ - drivers.conf.5 \ elf.5 \ ethers.5 \ eui64.5 \ diff --git a/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5 deleted file mode 100644 index f5df4ccfb8c9..000000000000 --- a/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,150 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" -.Dd March 23, 2002 -.Dt DRIVERS.CONF 5 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm drivers.conf -.Nd "driver configuration file for boot floppies" -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The file -.Nm -is used during the release build process. -A -.Fx -release includes three installation floppies. -The first floppy image, -.Pa kern.flp , -contains a statically linked kernel. -The second floppy image, -.Pa mfsroot.flp , -contains -.Xr sysinstall 8 , -a collection of essential commands necessary for installation, and -kernel modules to supplement the boot kernel. -The third floppy image, -.Pa drivers.flp , -contains optional device drivers that may not be necessary for -installation. -Users must initially boot the system with -.Pa kern.flp . -Once the system has booted, the user is prompted to insert the -.Pa mfsroot.flp . -The modules present in the -.Pa /stand/modules -directory of the mfsroot floppy will automatically be loaded by -.Xr sysinstall 8 . -If the user requires additional drivers, then the drivers present -on -.Pa drivers.flp -may be loaded from -.Xr sysinstall 8 . -.Pp -The -.Pa /usr/src/release/${arch}/drivers.conf -file contains a list of drivers that should be omitted from the boot -kernel and installed as kernel modules on the mfsroot floppy or the -driver floppy. -This is necessary because a static kernel with all of the -.Fx -device drivers would be far too large for a single floppy disk. -Each driver is described on a separate line; fields on each line are -separated by tabs or spaces. -.Pp -The first field, -.Ar driver , -is the name of the driver or option in the kernel configuration file. -This is used by -.Pa driver-remove.awk -to remove drivers from the boot floppy kernel configuration -file that are included as modules on the mfsroot floppy. -.Pp -The second field, -.Ar filename , -is the name of the associated kernel module (without the -.Pa .ko -extension). -.Pp -The third field, -.Ar floppy , -specifies which floppy disk should include the kernel module. -A value of 2 represents the -.Pa mfsroot.flp -floppy image, and a value of 3 represents the optional -.Pa drivers.flp -floppy image. -.Pp -The fourth field, -.Ar type , -specifies the driver category. -If set to -.Dq Li options , -then this module is assumed to add the -functionality of a kernel option. -Otherwise, this module is assumed to represent a device driver. -.Pp -The fifth field, -.Ar description , -provides a short description of the device driver. -This description is displayed to the user by -.Xr sysinstall 8 -when the module is loaded. -The descriptions for all drivers on the optional -.Pa drivers.flp -image are listed in the file -.Pa DRIVERS.TXT -which is created by -.Pa driver-desc.awk -and accompanies the floppy images on the FTP sites and release media. -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -compact -.It Pa /usr/src/release/Makefile -.It Pa /usr/src/release/${arch}/drivers.conf -.It Pa /usr/src/release/scripts/driver-copy2.awk -.It Pa /usr/src/release/scripts/driver-desc.awk -.It Pa /usr/src/release/scripts/driver-remove.awk -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr release 7 , -.Xr kldload 8 , -.Xr sysinstall 8 -.Rs -.%T "FreeBSD Release Engineering" -.%O http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ -.Re -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -file appeared in -.Fx 4.5 . -.Sh AUTHORS -.An -nosplit -.An HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi Aq hosokawa@FreeBSD.org -originally added support for moving kernel modules to the mfsroot -installer floppy image. -This manual page was written by -.An Murray Stokely Aq murray@FreeBSD.org . |