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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: dynamic hints
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> > Yes, sort-of.  kenv(8) can change the strings.  But I suspect it is too
> > late for something like isa since I think it would have done a pass at boot
> > to create the attachment nodes.  But as configuration knobs for drivers
> > that want to examine a string directly via getenv() etc, those would not be
> > too late.
> 
> It wouldn't be too late for loadable modules...

Don't most ISA probes have to happen a "the wrong time" because
their resources are unrelocatable?  That would argue against
post-boot-time hints...

-- Terry

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