From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 19:21:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE1D106566B; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CEC8FC13; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.24.96.151] ([192.75.139.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4CJCXDw057143 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 12 May 2011 13:12:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <004501cc10d0$6aaa2800$3ffe7800$@vicor.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:12:32 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <65723122-FD36-4BB5-8E0C-4973E6644251@bsdimp.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> To: Devin Teske X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (harmony.bsdimp.com [10.0.0.6]); Thu, 12 May 2011 13:12:37 -0600 (MDT) Cc: 'Olivier SMEDTS' , 'FreeBSD Hackers' , "'Teske, Devin'" , 'Emanuel Haupt' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 19:21:26 -0000 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 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