From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 9 11:01:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06107 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:01:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06091 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA20939; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:01:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA19915; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:01:29 -0600 Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:01:29 -0600 Message-Id: <199805091801.MAA19915@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Archie Cobbs , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-Reply-To: <199805090644.XAA00836@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <199805080315.VAA12411@mt.sri.com> <199805090644.XAA00836@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > This is (IMO) bogus. Stuff set in the kernel configuration file is no > > > easier to manipulate than sysctl variables. > > > > Sure it is. I know how things are setup in the kernel config files. I > > Ah, so "easier" means "easier for me". I think you'll find that most > people consider an interactive configuration process a lot "easier" > than having to install and build the kernel sources. Actually no. Most people are annoyed at the Linux 'interactive' process once they use the FreeBSD process. I can give you boatloads of email that shows this. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message