Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:12:32 -0400 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: 'Olivier SMEDTS' <olivier@gid0.org>, 'FreeBSD Hackers' <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, "'Teske, Devin'" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, 'Emanuel Haupt' <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.3 Message-ID: <65723122-FD36-4BB5-8E0C-4973E6644251@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <004501cc10d0$6aaa2800$3ffe7800$@vicor.com> References: <6955841F-C3C1-4C7D-8BA4-F8EBBF60F69B@vicor.com> <20110504103743.8d9f19d5.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> <2F3440C0-6EDB-4CD5-A269-4791AB89AA96@vicor.com> <004501cc10d0$6aaa2800$3ffe7800$@vicor.com>
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On May 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> On May 4, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Emanuel Haupt wrote: >>=20 >>> Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Hey all, >>>=20 >>> Proud to bring you version 1.3 which completes the followup >>> suggestions made by Olivier Smedts (use autoboot_delay instead of >>> loader_menu_timeout and change dc_seconds to loader_delay) and a >>> couple other minor enhancements/fixes. >>>=20 >>> I think that brings everything up to speed with the phenomenal >>> feedback provided so far. Really, thank you all very much. >>>=20 >>> Get your update at http://druidbsd.sf.net/ or >>> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/loader_menu-1.3.tgz >>=20 >> Devin, have you thought about writing a port [1]? I'd be happy to >> review it: >>=20 >> [1] > = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/own-port= .html >>=20 >=20 > I'm going to see if I can't make it perfectly acceptable for base = first. If the > final version gets rejected for submission to base, I'll turn to = ports. >=20 > On a side-note, it'd be a pretty interesting port... considering the = fact that > I'm already distributing it as a FreeBSD package (what would the = Makefile for > that port look like... a call to fetch followed by a call to pkg_add = ?? lol -- > are there other ports that already work like that?). In the FreeBSD developer's summit today, there was broad support for = bringing it into base for 9.0. Warner
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