From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 14 0:21:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B742437B583 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA35932; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:21:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id BAA54739; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:21:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004140721.BAA54739@harmony.village.org> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Subject: Re: Setting device options Cc: FreeBSD Hackers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:52:31 EDT." <38F64FAF.4D3BEAEF@lucent.com> References: <38F64FAF.4D3BEAEF@lucent.com> <38F63C11.860C901B@lucent.com> <200004132232.QAA48521@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:21:04 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <38F64FAF.4D3BEAEF@lucent.com> "Gary T. Corcoran" writes: : I'm sorry, but I don't know what "hints" are. Can you briefly explain : (to start)? OK. hints are what are set by the isa hints driver. I have a driver that will set these at boot, but it isn't quite ready to be distributed. Your best bet is to put environment variables in /boot/loader.conf. : As to sysctls, not available until after driver loading: I believe : that I need to know, before I reach the end of my attach routine, whether : I'm going to be in a LAN mode or a WAN mode, so I know whether : to do an ether_attach() or an sppp_attach(). So does that rule out : sysctls? Likely. This whole area is really weak in FreeBSD and should be beefed up. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message