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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. 
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, tony@dell.com, hackers@freebsd.org,
        witr@rwwa.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 03:36:38 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:38:42 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <6162.861964598@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: Well, the reading part sounds like it's pretty straight-forward, but
: something in userconfig is going to have to keep track of everything
: it changes so that this can be queried and saved through some API.
: I'm willing to try and make that bit work myself if we can somehow
: hook userconfig variables into your /boot.config file mechanism.  We
: could also get rid of the "info" area kludge after the boot blocks,
: while we're at it.

If this sounds like I think it sounds, I'd say go for it.

I don't know how many times I've been burned by the following
sequence:
	boot -c
	<twiddle stuff>
	rebuild kernel
	boot
and none of my twiddles were preserved.  If this information were
outside of the kernel, I'd be a lot happier.

Warner