From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 14 01:55:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA25372 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA25365 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([194.19.141.65]) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA24367; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:51:41 +0100 Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01002; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:03:28 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Smith cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:08:11 +1030." <199601131338.AAA19459@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:03:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1000.821574207@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I was also talking with Poul-H and Joerg about the idea of getting > > access to additional command-line args, and how hard that would be. > > In particular, I'd like to be able to do something like: > > > > boot -c aha0=0x330,10;ed0=0x300,10,0xd000 > > Er. I've been making noises about 'kernel environment variables' for some > time; see also Poul's brain wrt. sysctl and the 4k patcharea concept. > > He never did get back to me with his ideas 8/. Sorry Mike, I'm too busy right now :-( I think I outlined most of it for you, but that is little consolation of course... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.