From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 3:16:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393A137B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (office.sbnd.net [217.75.140.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 912A943F93 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 781 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2003 11:14:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:14:55 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Peter Wemm , Nicolas Souchu , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic hints Message-ID: <20030212111455.GA376@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Peter Wemm , Nicolas Souchu , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20030212013104.86B6F2A8C2@canning.wemm.org> <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:08:17AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Peter Wemm writes: > > > Yes, sort-of. kenv(8) can change the strings. But I suspect it is t= oo > > > late for something like isa since I think it would have done a pass a= t boot > > > to create the attachment nodes. But as configuration knobs for drive= rs > > > that want to examine a string directly via getenv() etc, those would = not be > > > too late. > >=20 > > It wouldn't be too late for loadable modules... >=20 > 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... So modules that do ISA probes will not use or honor post-boot-time hints. This does not mean that no other module will ever benefit from passing any kind of parameters at load time; it is true that this feature may be abused, but it may actually be *used*, too, and there are people who would definitely find it useful for passing some parameters to some modules. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential? --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Siyv7Ri2jRYZRVMRAh74AJ48Iij4JhKslJCXhJAVwv//BQ98sgCgwUf6 HdXWox4JWCWiynhgMHgzk3s= =8YGo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message