From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 5: 4: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE13214E27 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 08DB12DC07; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:04:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A31907811; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:03:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FB110E10; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:03:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Donn Miller Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" In-Reply-To: <38563935.3FCD4711@cvzoom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Actually, I was thinking about that myself. But the problem > > is that the code is very closely integrated into the existing > > syscons code (with a lot of #ifdef's, of course). > > I think another way (instead of ifdefs) would be to provide some > hooks into syscons, so that the "propellers" code can be loaded > or unloaded via kldload/unload. Another way to customize various strings, colors and variables could be via sysctl. It's easy e.g. to set up the "propeller" string via sysctl. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message