From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 6:18:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328B337B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.106]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11292; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:18:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA33993; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:18:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:18:17 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Donn Miller , Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hints static wiring References: <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Will the system fail to boot if there isn't an empty device.hints > > > file? > > No, it will boot, but some devices (like keyboard, console etc) would not work. > > That's clearly not true - I just removed an empty /boot/device.hints > and rebooted, and all those things work fine. I can believe that such > things won't work if they aren't specified in some hints file, but an > empty /boot/device.hints doesn't do anything more to specify them than > one that isn't there. That's probably because you have hints compiled into your kernel. Try to compile kernel w/o hints and use it with empty/unexistent /boot/device.hints and you will see what I mean. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message