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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:20:10 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r185562 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot0
Message-ID:  <20081211192010.GA28382@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200812021457.mB2Evmha063418@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200812021457.mB2Evmha063418@svn.freebsd.org>

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Luigi,
If I understand this correctly:

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:57:48PM +0000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Author: luigi
> Date: Tue Dec  2 14:57:48 2008
> New Revision: 185562
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185562
..
>   The behaviour of the standard build differs from the previous
>   version in the following, minor things:
>   + 'noupdate' is the default, which means the code does not
>     write back the selection to disk. You can enable the feature
>     at runtime with boot0cfg, or changing the flags in the Makefile.
..
>   MFC after:	6 weeks

If this means hitting "F2" in head will not longer be remembered, please
back out this part of the change.  The FreeBSD boot selector has acted
this way for over a decade - changing it now is against POLA.

If I've misunderstood the comment, never mind. :-)

thanks,
-- David



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