Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:36:32 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trimming the default /boot/device.hints Message-ID: <200901261736.32442.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090126220229.GR5889@elvis.mu.org> References: <200901260947.32870.jhb@freebsd.org> <200901261640.59239.jhb@freebsd.org> <20090126220229.GR5889@elvis.mu.org>
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On Monday 26 January 2009 5:02:29 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> [090126 13:57] wrote: > > On Monday 26 January 2009 3:38:24 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > There's no way to conditionally include them based on if > > > ISA is present? > > > > No, but I dare you to show me a box with ISA expansion slots that you plan to > > run 8.0 on. :) Or rather, I dare you to show me _enough_ of said boxes to > > where removing these hints from the default set will inconvenience more users > > than the folks having their ethernet come up as le1 in vmware guests. :) > > I agree with you, I was just wondering if it was just a matter of > a few lines of code somehow so that some enthusiast who wants to play > with FreeBSD on some old piece of junk doesn't get some cryptic > error that sort of reduces them to "toggling in load.conf tunables > at the console". :) Heh, well, what will happen is that their device won't work until they either edit /boot/device.hints and reboot, or toggle in the tunables at the loader prompt. :-P -- John Baldwin
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