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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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