From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 04:35:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03465 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 04:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk ([195.8.135.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03455 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 04:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00504; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:07:23 +0200 (CEST) To: alk@pobox.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:28:47 CDT." <13843.4768.682876.640699@avalon.east> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:07:23 +0200 Message-ID: <502.907229243@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <13843.4768.682876.640699@avalon.east>, Tony Kimball writes: >Quoth Poul-Henning Kamp, Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:24:43 +0200 >: ...there is no need to stuff potentially >: unlimited number of ascii-strings into the kernel, in particular >: considering that it doesn't use them after having printed one of >: them at boot. > >Now if it properly GC'd... You can't, once cardbus is here I might plug a videocard into my machine long time after boot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message