grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (04/06/88)
This stuff really didn't seem to fit in with my Ultrix 2.2 installation notes message so I broke it out... Observations: 1) It's kind of amusing that Ultrix now includes a copy of the CI780 Microcode in the mdec directory, no? Funny, the CI not supported warning message doesn't show up when you do a strings /vmunix... Anybody know what the 'efs' device driver mentioned in /sys/conf/files is for? 2) Can anyone provide an description of the stuff in /usr/lib/lpd/lpdfilters? Some is obvious, and I guess most is varian/versatec stuff, although I didn't load any of the raster printer stuff. Sure would be nice if DEC would supply the source for a generic filter that you would customize to suit. There are one or two tricks that make it slightly obvious how to write a filter and the information on output filter specifications in the supplementary documentation is incomplete. 3) The "m4" sendmail.cf sources have popped up in /usr/src/usr.lib/... but there's nothing there that isn't in the generic sendmail.cf. 4) Anybody know what "support" is provided for the "RRD50" "Read Only Optical Disk Unit"? 5) Interesting how little is said about the "Assymetric Multiprocessor Support" -- I guess you're just supposed to load the software on your 8800, put "processors 2" in the config file and not worry about the details, huh? 6) The following amusing stuff shows up if you do a "strings -2 /etc/mount". unknown ufs ods brfs msdos nfs dfs sysv Can you say "unix file system, vms file system, bell remote file system, ms-dos, network file system, ???, system V file system"? It would be interesting if it all comes to pass. The general idea is if you say mount -t xxx, mount tries to exec xxx_mount to do the dirty work. So far only ufs_mount and nfs_mount seem to be present...