From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 3:46:51 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 2E56F37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (office.sbnd.net [217.75.140.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DB2443FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 964 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2003 11:45:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:45:35 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Peter Wemm , Nicolas Souchu , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic hints Message-ID: <20030212114535.GB376@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> <20030212111455.GA376@straylight.oblivion.bg> <3E4A3051.52402DFC@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4A3051.52402DFC@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 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:30:25AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 pa= ss at boot > > > > > to create the attachment nodes. But as configuration knobs for d= rivers > > > > > that want to examine a string directly via getenv() etc, those wo= uld 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... > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I agree in principle, but read what Peter Wemm wrote: this is about > an ISA device. Yes, that's true; however, I think that Nicholas Souchu did not really mean ISA in the message that started the thread. Still, yes, for ISA you are absolutely correct. 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 pi were 3? --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+SjPf7Ri2jRYZRVMRArsLAKCe4QP4O2FQ30wbtVbigPIPRaFMcwCgwNOJ +EFgPsQJEIP+GCfq2o0Z4Ws= =Podx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message