From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 13 01:10:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA14792 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:10:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA14787 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA05638; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:09:56 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199601130909.KAA05638@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:09:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <10173.821511639@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 12, 96 09:40:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I was also talking with Poul-H and Joerg about the idea of getting > access to additional command-line args, and how hard that would be. > In particular, I'd like to be able to do something like: > > boot -c aha0=0x330,10;ed0=0x300,10,0xd000 > > And be able to get at the argv[3] from userconfig, treating this as a > `run these commands and leave' sort of op. This would be especially speaking of userconfig. Is there any chance to re-enable the "probe" command ? It disapperared a few months ago (march ?), and I think it was very useful, especially when using software-configurable cards. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================