Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:41:40 +0400 From: Tarc <tarc@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loader forth Message-ID: <20060609114140.GC56421@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> Resent-Message-ID: <20060611113456.GB24170@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20060609084656.GA43591@what-creek.com> References: <20060609084656.GA43591@what-creek.com>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:46:57AM +0000, John Birrell wrote: > Gobbldy-gook! Yuk. I need help. > > All I want to do is add another menu option that will do > the equivalent of: > > cyclic_load="YES" > dtrace_load="YES" > > etc > > and then boot. > > Adding the menu option was simple. > > But it seems that the loader code does the module loading *before* > the menu is displayed and simply doing the setenvs when the key > press is detected is too late -- they get ignored. > > Doing the setenv and then a boot-conf resets everything to what was > read from the config files. Grumble. > > I see that the acpi implementation cheats and that module gets > loaded from the C-code. Is that because the design of the loader forth > doesn't allow this? > > This is probably really simple for a forth programmer. Which I'm not. > > Can anyone tell me how to do it? > > -- > John Birrell Yes, but you can use the load command for loading custom modules and/or kernel. for documentation, you can see to /sys/boot/common/help.common . There are described some commands. T-prefix and D-prefix are for format only, so you should find `# Tload' pattern. -- Best regards, Arseny Nasokin
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