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To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... 
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	Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:11:24 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006210813550.9736-100000@mx.webgiro.com> Andrzej Bialecki writes:
: That's fine. However, this practically makes using /boot/loader
: mandatory. I still wonder if having some in-kernel interpreter wouldn't
: give us more choice, with exactly the same functionality. Of course, it
: would have to be run before any probing starts...

All you'd need to do, if you don't want to compile it statically into
the kernel, is arrange to read a file in from disk.  With minor mods,
you could read the entire environement which the hints mechanism now
uses.

Warner


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