Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:26:08 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing Message-ID: <199704291026.UAA31045@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Is the bootloader currently stressed by the current filesystem? I >specifically asked about subdirectories when you first mentioned the >readfile() support, and you scoffed at the intimation that they might >be a problem. It's squeezed by the 7.5K limit. >> >0xmagicnumber, 0xlength, >> >"rcfile 1 name" >> >> Overengineered. > >Perhaps. Perhaps not. What if I want to throw in, say, the splash screen >image here. Am I still overengineering? How about the initial state >for the kernel's registry? The count would be very painful to maintain using ed(1) when you're fixing a failed config after screwing up the driver for the device containing /usr... The splash screen could be just another file to load. It could be handled by a bootstrap load command and a bootstrap or kernelconfig splash command. >I specifically don't want to require that the "environment"-management >code know all of the possible consumers of a a variable. Some may >provide state, some may be commands; they should be transparent to the >management code. ed(1) certainly won't know about what the commands mean :-). Bruce
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