From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 21:35:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6E21065675; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A19D8FC0A; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id XAA14656; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RqAVM-0006uz-7G; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4F2075AF.2030900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:43 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <201201251836.q0PIa1sl037892@svn.freebsd.org> <4F205673.30907@FreeBSD.org> <4F206B8B.30207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F206B8B.30207@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r230545 - head/sys/boot/forth X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:47 -0000 on 25/01/2012 22:52 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/25/2012 11:22, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I have this crazy idea that we should remove the 'Safe Boot' and "ACPI' options >> from the default boot menu (on platforms where they are present). > > IMO better labels on the menu would be a better option here. The ACPI > option in particular is important for some users who have broken ACPI. Well, from my experience, nowadays it's a 99% chance that a PC simply won't work at all without ACPI. However broken it might be. Not sure if better labels can be of any help with that :-) >> Besides, 'Safe Boot' seems to be already somewhat undermined by rc.d/kld. > > If there is a way to signal that down to userspace I'm happy to modify > the behavior of the script. Maybe this gets propagated via kenv. In this case changing a label to something like "Enable loading of configured kernel modules" could be an improvement. -- Andriy Gapon