From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 12 07:23:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05423 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05416 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27524; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:20:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803121520.HAA27524@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Mikael Karpberg cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bootstrap syntax (was Re: HEADS UP! (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:49:42 +0100." <199803121449.PAA17427@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:20:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > According to Mike Smith: > > The bootstrap needs to be taught how to parse the slice number, perhaps > > in an extended syntax such as xd(unit,slice,part)kernel although it > > would make more sense to me to switch to eg. sd0s1a:/kernel. > > That would be most welcome. Then it would be possible, even easy, > to remember it, and way more logical from a user perspective, at least. At least it would share something in common with other similar namings, just as the current scheme shares something with a number of now-extinct historical namings. > > (This isn't going to happen in the short term though; too much > > backwards-compatability grief.) > > Hmm... > Isn't this something which is purely userinterface? And if not, why not? It would bite: - people with old boot.config files - people with old boot.help files - people that expected the old syntax to work The support issues this would raise would be enormous. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message