From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 29 10:30:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E56A37B422; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA05649; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:30:24 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brooks Davis Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Meyer , Warner Losh , Maxim Sobolev , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hints static wiring Message-ID: <20000829103024.A5567@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:25:26AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > At the very least, there appears to be confusion about how to use the > > hints. I can see two conflicting views here: > > > > 1. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, but it may be empty. > > This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what the build system requires. > This works if you build static hints into your kernel. Please stop saying FUD. The *INSTALL* system requires /boot/device.hints. The *BUILD* process does not. > > 2. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, and it must contain at > > least some entries. > > This is more correct. The new world order says that hints are not in the > kernel, instead they are loaded by the loader at boot time. I would quite to so far. I know many that will continue to compile static hints into their kernels until that ability is removed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message