Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:41:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new bootloader suggestions.. Message-ID: <199810082041.NAA00478@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 11:36:24 CDT." <199810081636.LAA00404@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
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> I was wondering if we could make the environment of the new > boot loader non-volatile. It seems as though variables > that you set at boot should stick around. Could we > possibly have a /boot/environment or something similar > where the variables are actually written back? Sure. I have (uncommitted) code that gives you access to the kernel environment, along with a sysctl to extract it. You could easily write it back and source it in. > Although it is nice to support script type files, for most > usage I would rather have the typical console like behavior. Understood. How about a patch to boot/common/interp.c to teach it how to do the reading side? I'll get the kernel stuff committed soon. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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