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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:14:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PATCH: sysinstall to remove userconfig code
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011113121440.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200111132009.fADK9sX50643@gits.dyndns.org>

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On 13-Nov-01 Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Makoto Matsushita wrote:
>> 
>> Userconfig was gone in 5-current, so we can safely remove kget() from
>> sysinstall.  Attached below is a patch to do (kget.c should be remove
>> also).
> 
> I don't know -current. what is the feature which replace kget ?
> does boot -c (or whatever) still exists ? is it possible to
> edit <KERNEL>.hints at boot time ?

You can use kenv and just save the ones starting with 'hint' to kernel.conf. 
kenv dumps the entire kernel environment.  We still need a utility written in
Forth that the loader can run for the user to modify the hints in the
environment.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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