From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 10 23:51:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B2C37B417 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18754 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 07:51:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Dec 2001 07:51:32 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45370.1008043656@winston.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:51:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader version src/share/examp Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Dec-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> All these loader commits make it possible to overwrite the existing contents > of >> a file on a UFS filesystem. This allows us to finally implement nextboot >> for >> example. It currently only works on x86, but all that is needed on other >> arc > > Woohoo, cool! It also lets one finally write the kernel hints editor > fully in forth, too! :) You could already do that. The rc scripts (or sysinstall) merely need do: kenv | grep ^hint > /boot/device.hints to save the results of editing the environment strings in the loader. :) > - Jordan -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message