From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 18 3:25:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2647137B5DC for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id B87562DC0C; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:31:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C5DF7817; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6025C10E17; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:21:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Peter Wemm Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... In-Reply-To: <20000617003740.ECD471CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > Chia-liang Kao wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there anyway to put the device.hint stuff into kernel nevertheless? > > My diskless box fetches the kernel would know nothing about things reside > > in device.hint. > > That is what the hints directive is for. > > you could create a file "diskless.hints" and add the line to your config > file: > hints "/wherever/diskless.hints" > and the contents of that file would be statically compiled in. You can still > override them at boot time if you wish, but the basic set will be there. > > This is what GENERIC does right now. It compiles GENERIC.hints straight in. > (see hints.c in compile/YOURKERNEL) This thread is long, so maybe I missed something.. Can we have the *.hints file loadable as a module of some special type (like kernel.conf), and searched for during configuration like userconfig did? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message