Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:38:43 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <86hd668wrg.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200603091335.23964.jhb@freebsd.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:35:21 -0500") References: <200603091711.k29HBI49013996@repoman.freebsd.org> <200603091335.23964.jhb@freebsd.org>
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This talk of KERNELS reminds me of a patchset I've had for quite a
while.
Currently, 'make buildkernel' builds all the kernels you list in
KERNCONF, but installs only one, to /boot/kernel. I've patched my
tree so it installs all of them into /boot/${KERN_IDENT}. The reason
why I haven't committed this is that I want the loader to present a
list of kernels at boot time, and I don't know enough Forth to
implement that myself.
Ideally, the loader would grep each kernel and display its version
string in the menu; and there would be an rc.d script that links
/boot/kernel to $(dirname $(sysctl -n kern.bootfile)) so things like
zsh's kldload argument completion still work.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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