Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:03:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting Message-ID: <v04011700b239617c1887@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <502.907229243@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:28:47 CDT." <13843.4768.682876.640699@avalon.east>
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At 10:07 AM +0200 10/1/98, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. In which case, you won't have any need for verbose *-> BOOTING <-* messages about that video card... _______ Presumably you wouldn't put all ascii-strings in this section, just the messages which would be used by verbose booting and would not be needed for anything after that... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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