Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:03:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Subject: Re: device hints in manpages Message-ID: <XFMail.001005220333.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001003045523.A43923@mppsystems.com>
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On 03-Oct-00 Mike Pritchard wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:40:38PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: >> Hello! >> >> How are we going to document the hints-stuff in manpages? >> >> We have to replace many lines like this: >> .Cd "device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 irq 5 flags 0x4 iosiz 16384 iomem >> 0xd8000" >> >> to something way more appreciate. >> >> Alex > > I brought this up at the time was made. I can't find any of the > e-mail in my archives on the subject. Searching the mailing list > archives may turn up something. > > I think I proposed something like: > > .Cd "device ed" > .Cd "hints CONFIG.hints" Err, I wouldn't stick this line in the manpages, as the preferred method is to use dynamic hints from /boot/device.hints that are machine-specific, not kernel-specific. :) This would be better documented in the hints(4) manpage as a separate line item about static hints vs. dynamic hints. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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