From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 31 15:56:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931BE37B40A; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: from webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B401B68469; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:19:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B6736D7.DFC2771@webgiro.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:53:11 +0200 From: Andrzej Bialecki Organization: WebGiro AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern subr_param.c kern_mib.c src/sys/sys systm.h References: <200107282058.f6SKvwJ02435@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > > : Move param.c out of the conf directory and make it fully dynamic. > > > : Tunables are now derived at boot time from maxusers. ie: change maxuse > > rs > > > : via a tunable and all the derivative settings change. You can change > > > : the other tunables individually as well. Even hz etc is tunable. > > > > > > Maybe I missed it, but shouldn't these be documented somewhere? > > > > "Where?" is a damn good question... > > tunables(8) > > If nobody else has started on this already, I'll try to cull a list of > our current tunables and put a skeleton together today. > > I'm not sure how I feel about documenting these in the loader help; it's > starting to get pretty enormous. Maybe we need a way of reading catpages > from the loader? 8) 8) 8) Now, this is really sick, but... * loader can read /etc/fstab to see where /usr can be found * it can change media to read from /usr/../catX * loader supports a subset of cons25 emulation, so it can display color attributes and highlights * loader has a "more" functionality Tell me, why you think it's funny? We can do it today. ;-) -- Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki , Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message