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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:29:17 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: For review: machdep.bootdev sysctl (for i386) 
Message-ID:  <20020311202346.K6034-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200203101042.g2AAgCj03522@mass.dis.org>

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Michael Smith wrote:

[bootdev]
> If it's added as something like machdep.guessed_bootdev, then I'll
> probably just barf into a bag and forget about it.  I can't promise that
> the code won't get cleaned out at some point, but it's been quietly
> rotting for a few years now, so I wouldn't consider it too much of a risk.

I maintain this code locally but wouldn't commit my changes :-).  Enough
of it has been removed to break determining the root device from the boot
device in some cases (the non-devfs case?).

Bruce


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