Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:08:28 +0200 From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES) Message-ID: <3CB4A9CC.B5D46293@webgiro.com> References: <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > ] revision 1.260 > ] date: 2000/06/13 22:28:46; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +40 -46 > ] Borrow phk's axe and apply the next stage of config(8)'s evolution. > ] > ] Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the > ] resource table at boot time. > ] > ] config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration > ] no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your > ] isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time: > ] set hint.ed.0.port=0x320 > ] > ] userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will > ] move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that. If anyone feels it's time to refresh his Forth skills ;-) he may have a look at the full-screen demos of what can be done with the bootforth terminal emulation. Take a look at /usr/src/share/examples/bootforth/* . I believe it is possible to implement a visual userconfig replacement with these capabilities... I wonder also how to retrieve later the hints settings from running kernel, in order to save them into a file (a la kget, or dset before that)... Are hints preserved and exported anywhere to userland? -- Andrzej -- -------------------------------------------- Andrzej Bialecki, Chief System Architect WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) -------------------------------------------- FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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