Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:56:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: cracauer@cons.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <200006190356.e5J3uC502403@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> In <200006131540.e5DFekh04320@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > hardware configuration. > > I disagree. I would like to tell which machine I am booting on to > choose an appropriate kernel. > Eventually (it may take a while) we should be able to boot any i386/AT based machine with a single kernel which dynamically loads drivers for available hardware (and different locking modules for UP and SMP for that matter). > My -current harddisk (physically) moves between 3 machines with very > different requirements, not just SMP. FPU, few or much RAM, ISA stuff > on identical places etc. > > I can select the kernel manually, but after a crash or power fail I > might not be in a position to do it again. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ > -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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