From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 29 18:33:07 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA10478 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 18:33:07 -0800 Received: from reggae.ncren.net (reggae.ncren.net [128.109.131.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA10471 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 18:33:05 -0800 Received: from ponds.UUCP by reggae.ncren.net (5.65/tas-reggae/may94) id AA11346; Thu, 29 Dec 94 21:32:47 -0500 Received: (rivers@localhost) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) id UAA18401; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:58:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:58:26 -0500 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199412300158.UAA18401@ponds.UUCP> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Subject: Re: DX4/100 BUG Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > As Bruce Evans wrote: > | > | hlt_works_ok defaults to 1. It is cleared if to boot loader passes the > | string "no-hlt" on the command line. FreeBSD could use a new boot flag. > > I'm afraid we will soon have to extend the alphabet by new characters > just to gain some more bootflags. :-O Well, we could go for numbers... In my stuff, I have flags like: -qNNN[=value] thus, I use up one letter, and get 999 possible options. It's really ugly for the user (just what was that number again?) but extends things nicely. Of course, a better mechanism is to have something more than single letter options :-) > > -- > cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- > private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de - Dave Rivers -