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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:08:12 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect?
Message-ID:  <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com>
References:  <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com>

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On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the
> "env" functionality described in config(5).
> 
> When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that
> the tunables are compiled in.
> 
> However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel,
> and they also don't show up when running kenv(1) after boot.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lars

I finally found a few minutes to look into this today.  You didn't say
what platform you're working with.  It appears that this has only ever
worked on i386 and a handful of old arm and mips platforms.

-- Ian



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