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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:15:42 +0000
From:      "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect?
Message-ID:  <641BBA24-447D-453C-B2E2-47503559A517@netapp.com>
In-Reply-To: <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com>, <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org>

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> On Oct 22, 2015, at 21:08, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the
>> "env" functionality described in config(5).
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>> When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that
>> the tunables are compiled in.
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>> However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel,
>> and they also don't show up when running kenv(1) after boot.
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>> Any ideas?
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>> Thanks,
>> Lars
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> I finally found a few minutes to look into this today.  You didn't say
> what platform you're working with.  It appears that this has only ever
> worked on i386 and a handful of old arm and mips platforms.
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> -- Ian



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