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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:32:24 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        config@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject:   Re: Startup userconfig parsing
Message-ID:  <199704301032.UAA16717@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> No, it's desired to have no user-specified configuration data then.
>> Userconfig etc. are "temporary" kludges to get around h/w and BIOS
>> braindamage.
>
>Feh.  Why don't we just put a TCL interpreter into the kernel and have
>done with this?  /boot.tcl.  Problem solved at a stroke.  You're
>entirely welcome, thanks.

not a bad idea, except of course you mean a config interpreter ;-).
The config parser in config(8) is about the same size as the kernel
userconfig.

Bruce



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