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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:08:17 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dynamic hints
Message-ID:  <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030212013104.86B6F2A8C2@canning.wemm.org> <xzp65rpkdf4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> > Yes, sort-of.  kenv(8) can change the strings.  But I suspect it is too
> > late for something like isa since I think it would have done a pass at boot
> > to create the attachment nodes.  But as configuration knobs for drivers
> > that want to examine a string directly via getenv() etc, those would not be
> > too late.
> 
> It wouldn't be too late for loadable modules...

Don't most ISA probes have to happen a "the wrong time" because
their resources are unrelocatable?  That would argue against
post-boot-time hints...

-- Terry

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