From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 3:33: 9 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 1AE5537B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:33:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880DF43F3F for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:33:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0043.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.43] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18iv8F-0006NK-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:32:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4A3051.52402DFC@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:30:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Peter Wemm , Nicolas Souchu , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic hints References: <20030212013104.86B6F2A8C2@canning.wemm.org> <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com> <20030212111455.GA376@straylight.oblivion.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a477562afbd8c266d6c3b2a0380d07a40293caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 Peter Pentchev wrote: > 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 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... > > 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. I agree in principle, but read what Peter Wemm wrote: this is about an ISA device. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message