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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:03:27 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from CD..? 
Message-ID:  <1000.821574207@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:08:11 %2B1030." <199601131338.AAA19459@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> > I was also talking with Poul-H and Joerg about the idea of getting
> > access to additional command-line args, and how hard that would be.
> > In particular, I'd like to be able to do something like:
> > 
> > 	boot -c aha0=0x330,10;ed0=0x300,10,0xd000
> 
> Er.  I've been making noises about 'kernel environment variables' for some
> time; see also Poul's brain wrt. sysctl and the 4k patcharea concept.
> 
> He never did get back to me with his ideas 8/.

Sorry Mike, I'm too busy right now :-(
I think I outlined most of it for you, but that is little consolation
of course...

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