From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 23:18:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C6837B422; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA91768; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:18:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA07168; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:18:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008290618.AAA07168@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: hints static wiring Cc: Mike Meyer , Maxim Sobolev , Donn Miller , Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:25:26 +0930." <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200008282045.OAA04141@harmony.village.org> <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:18:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : 2. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, and it must contain at : least some entries Add "unless you compile the hints statically into the kernel, in which case it may be empty." and you will be correct. There's plenty of potential for foot shooting, but it will generally only impact older, legacy non-pnp systems. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message