Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 00:06:22 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 'Dieter BSD' <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Subject: Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu Message-ID: <20110504040621.GC78390@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <CE451F5A-1D05-455C-9081-41585245AEF3@vicor.com> References: <20110430192737.287270@gmx.com> <DD1F639830154CDF9EFF3DF790795293@shxd.ath.cx> <20110501031105.GA16357@DataIX.net> <CE451F5A-1D05-455C-9081-41585245AEF3@vicor.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Devin, On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:45:14PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: > >On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> >> Devin, >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:00:47PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: >>> >>>> Would be nice: "uname -v" of the kernel it will boot. >>> >>> That's a bit more technically challenging. I'll have another look at the >>> FICL words available, but I don't recall if there was a way to crawl the >>> object space of the items loaded with ``load'' (looking for the uname). I'm >>> open to suggestions if you had an idea of how to do this in Forth -- else >>> I'd think this would need to be a loader(8) modification. >> >> How about forgetting a mention of unmae & ... instead look into if we >> can support some sort of bootcode versioning to be displayed on the >> screen. This would serve to be very helpful in the future when for say a >> new version of bootcode for ZFS has to be installed then it would be >> easy for announce@ to simply say "A new version of ZFS has been MFCd and >> requires boot version >= X. To find out your version please see the >> bottom right hand corner of your boot screen." >> >> I would place a pretty good bet that loader(8) could be modified to >> export some sort of versioning of the bootcode to make this a easier >> stance for the user to gather information before a upgrade. > >Piece of cake! If you give me a loader(8) that exports a "version" environment variable, I'll give the Forth functionality in mere seconds. It's already been developed (but was not packaged). > >I have a module named "version.4th" which prints the value of the "version" environment variable at the bottom-right of the screen underneath the beastie logo. > >Since you mention this, I'll add the code to the next package and if/when loader(8) ever exports a "version" environment variable, it will just magically appear. How's that sound? > Sounds perfect! -- Regards, (jhell) Jason Hellenthal [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://bit.ly/0x89D8547E iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNwNC9AAoJEJBXh4mJ2FR+1RgH/1iRs0zi3VvARVSU8kt6PFxO voiBSwMSPsEoqVnaJqhYK5jJBoJCH/nHMQknmYkkCzP7Z38KeVp/0nE5i1+ebUk8 m6q7SYpcMLOAqn/aPZlcW8g5mvwA9jTzY4KG+02oi2hybjUhsU/30ku5i/sT0IB/ /42fkm+ww79cNhZtFVMAxWOf7coZUfCxfytQqInVAVfUQx7aOy2DMlebH2zngGGB tvgdq3q+qt3Nb9PTh4mNtvHL4yMQXobgJd40v9z0CtmaUB22TDse/hh9WmyK46fm N0xEgkLLvOzddU90+IX1cQ3d6OiqhKaNF10s1ChYR6RlIFtOBkeRTgoY/7UrCBg= =axjc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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