Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:47:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, mcdougall@ameritech.net, Kent A Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel config Message-ID: <199806010247.TAA14896@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 16:43:37 PDT." <7926.896658217@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net> writes: > > > > yup, add this to the kernel > > > > options USERCONFIG_BOOT > > > > > > YAUKO! > > > > I have some work in progress to make this option go away (and have > > kernel.config always parsed). Are there any strong objections to this? [inre: the USERCONFIG string at the top of kernel.config] > The reason it was added in the first place was the fact that these > commands could also (in the past, at least, haven't checked lately) be > pulled out of "info block" following the boot blocks. Since these could > also contain garbage if uninitialized, I added the explicit check for > the USERCONFIG string. Support for reading this data from flat areas of the disk is no longer part of the bootstrap. I don't think that there are very many cases where this is likely to be in use (I seem to recall it required a special bootblock compilation option). If there is a strong case for requiring this signature, though, I have no objections. Actually, kernel.config is a strong contender for the 'extras' stuff I developed for the splashkit, but the extra bloat in the bootblocks would not make me popular, I wot. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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