From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 08:11:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BAD106568E for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1E48FC12 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9B4179541; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:52:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:52:35 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: eSHzX7y5jQyjcSqi4gj1S7MtsIv3cli6bbrvxtbyoK9x 1223797955 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FA8C7F1B; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:52:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48F1ACC1.3020600@incunabulum.net> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:52:33 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo References: <20081010151456.GA27576@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20081010151456.GA27576@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting bootverbose (or boothowto) from the kernel config file ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:11:08 -0000 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Also, what is exactly the relation between the two variables > 'boothowto' (apparently set through the loader and containing > various flags) and 'bootverbose' (which is a sysctl) ? > Different parts of the kernel use one or the other to control > verbose output, and i am not sure if, e.g. setting RB_VERBOSE > in 'boothowto' also sets bootverbose... > See the FSG3 patch I just posted to embedded@ yesterday. I pulled some of that from ia64. Both amd64 and i386 implement it in init_i386() -- the early enviroment stuff happens during the MD startup and isn't implemented the same in all architectures.