From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 9 9:31:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F5D37B419 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16494 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2002 16:31:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Apr 2002 16:31:21 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g39GW4v49319; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <17393.1018364044@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Apr-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , John Baldwin writes: > >>Have you implemented the replacement yet? :) In my mind it was kind of there >>as a reminder that we needed to do that. > > No I havn't and neither have anybody else it seems. > > And quite frankly, it doesn't look like the market pressure is there, > given the existence of the hints file. The replacement would specifically be a nice front-end to the hints concept that would manipulate the default hints set via the loader environment. It might need an extra metadata file to match device drivers mentioned in the hints to human-readable text strings, etc. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message