From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 17 22:41:04 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA27784 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Dec 1994 22:41:04 -0800 Received: from tiny.mcs.usu.edu (tiny.mcs.usu.edu [129.123.15.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA27778 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 1994 22:41:01 -0800 Received: by tiny.mcs.usu.edu (8.6.8/1.34) id BAA07709; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 01:08:31 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 01:08:31 -0700 From: kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.edu (Kurt Olsen) Message-Id: <199412180808.BAA07709@tiny.mcs.usu.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boottimedevice configuration Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > All of the above has been heavily discussed over the past 4 months or so, >and the idea is generally the direction that we're headed. It's still unclear >if we will be storing the device configuration information in the kernel >binary somehow or if it will be stored in a seperate file. Do the latter >either complicates the boot code or creates a chicken-and-egg problem for >the configuration of the boot device. > >-DG I would go with the current scheme of having some compile time defaults. Then using the -c option in the kernel a user could change the settings on a temporary basis to get it booted. Then if they don't want to recompile they could create a file to setup the changes for the next boot. As for changing the boot device, why not allow this bit of information to be written directly to the boot code. I'm not sure exactly what would required for this, but it seems like a useful feature. Kurt Olsen kurto@cc.usu.edu ps - I'm still waiting for someone to give an opinion of what to do about drand48 and friends. pps - I'm also still wondering if anyone can help me with some code for identifying a Cyrix 486DX2 (not a DLC.) I've talked with Cyrix and got a callback so I'm really happy, but their suggestion was to send them the code and they'll see if they can figure it out. Needless to say the only reasonably way I can see to get them the code would be a CD, maybe after the new year.