From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 10:06:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23588 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23437 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:06:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA230926; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:59:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: 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> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:03:48 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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