Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:36:51 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: nextboot(8) was Re: install_and_reboot target for kernel's... Message-ID: <20040805203650.GN27045@spiff.melthusia.org> In-Reply-To: <200408041711.33217.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040804182321.GY991@funkthat.com> <p06110408bd36e1dd6d66@[128.113.24.47]> <20040804200535.GZ991@funkthat.com> <200408041711.33217.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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--RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:11:33PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:05 pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > a) not everyone knows about nextboot, putting it in the makefile and > > documenting it will allow more people to know about it >=20 > That I debate. :) Having a bikeshed on arch@ might let more people know = about=20 > it, but documenting things doesn't always make them more widely known. = =20 > There's a reason they are called FAQs. Also, the intended audience for t= his=20 > target is mostly developers, and they probably already know about nextboo= t. As the author of the current incarnation of nextboot, I was surprised with the number of people on IRC that said things like "I wish I could boot a kernel for a single run, and if it crashed it would automagically revert to the previous kernel." Well, this is exactly what nexboot does since we have write support in the loader. So I think there are a fair number of developers that aren't familiar with what nextboot does. -gordon --RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEppiRu2t9DV9ZfsRArf9AJ4+32m+7BbyJyfmevKW5GNrdkkcbQCgsZuC KBofVxJUeCHvi+QE5TvdqiE= =Gq5/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq--
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