Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES Message-ID: <XFMail.20020409123111.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <17393.1018364044@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 09-Apr-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <XFMail.20020409104454.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: > >>Have you implemented the replacement yet? :) In my mind it was kind of there >>as a reminder that we needed to do that. > > No I havn't and neither have anybody else it seems. > > And quite frankly, it doesn't look like the market pressure is there, > given the existence of the hints file. The replacement would specifically be a nice front-end to the hints concept that would manipulate the default hints set via the loader environment. It might need an extra metadata file to match device drivers mentioned in the hints to human-readable text strings, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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