From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 02:43:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00415 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:43:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-49-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00406 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA09609; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:41:39 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901101041.MAA09609@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/boot.conf -> /boot/boot.rc In-Reply-To: <51112.915963995@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 10, 99 02:26:35 am" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:41:36 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hmmm. How about a compromise, since I'm still hung up on the POLA > argument for legacy users of boot2? Have it look in both locations, > /boot/boot2.conf being first, and don't print an error message if it > can't find one of them. Would that be too many speculative reads? I'd be happy with that. Though I'd prefer to make this a transitional measure, say to be dropped before the 3.2 release (or whenever). There's only 7K available for boot2 (with, for example, 144 bytes of free space at the moment). Even a new version of gcc may reduce to a negative value. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message