Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:30:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide Message-ID: <20040906073014.GA13651@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost>
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On 2004-09-05 16:27, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html In section 4: On the i386 and pc98 platforms, a UserConfig utility exists on 4.X to allow boot-time configuration of ISA devices when booting from installation media. Under FreeBSD 5.X, this functionality has been replaced in part by the device.hints(5) mechanism (it allows specifying the same parameters, but with a very different interface). Do you think we should add a note about why the change was made? Having to learn something new regarding boot-time kernel configuration is probably going to raise a few complaints, but at least we can explain in a few short words why the change was made :-)
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