From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 2 06:48:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19466 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19455 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA20849 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:48:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA28047 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:48:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA00498 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:19:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606021019.MAA00498@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kernel config part of /kernel To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:19:54 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606011721.LAA05505@intele.net> from Barnacle Wes at "Jun 1, 96 11:21:28 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Barnacle Wes wrote: > > (How about conditional compilation to config to allow/disallow it) > > How 'bout sticking it in a segment the kernel loader won't put in > RAM? Then it'd only cost a little disk space per kernel. No such segment. :) Wait for the kernel going ELF... Anyway, dset(8) allows to tweak the settings, so there's no reason why you should not be able to make it extracting them as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)