Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:11:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... Message-ID: <200006212011.OAA83111@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:17:33 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006210813550.9736-100000@mx.webgiro.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006210813550.9736-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006210813550.9736-100000@mx.webgiro.com> Andrzej Bialecki writes: : That's fine. However, this practically makes using /boot/loader : mandatory. I still wonder if having some in-kernel interpreter wouldn't : give us more choice, with exactly the same functionality. Of course, it : would have to be run before any probing starts... All you'd need to do, if you don't want to compile it statically into the kernel, is arrange to read a file in from disk. With minor mods, you could read the entire environement which the hints mechanism now uses. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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