From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 08:24:44 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA15060 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:24:44 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA14894 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:21:51 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA28347 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:21:26 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA07643 for current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:21:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA29278 for current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:13:46 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509121213.OAA29278@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925 To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:13:46 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199509120657.XAA04880@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 11, 95 11:57:10 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 610 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > I don't see the harm in making 'userconfig' a USERCONFIG kernel option, > however. In fact, it originally started out being an option, but everyone > seemed to agree that it was too useful to ever be without...so we made it > standard. This reminds me: is there any chance to get parts of the kernel pageable? (My current understanding is that a.out lacks the ability to carry additional sections that would be required for this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)