From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 13:35:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17166 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17139 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA17624; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:30:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199809302030.QAA17624@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting In-Reply-To: <24843.907183483@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <24843.907183483@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > If your're asking me, the identification of the VGA chips is > something which should be killed, it doesn't belong in the kernel. > You can do that from userland, there is no need to stuff potentially > unlimited number of ascii-strings into the kernel, in particular > considering that it doesn't use them after having printed one of > them at boot. But we'll have ELF kernels soon enough, so theoretically we could put all of that stuff in its own section and then release the memory after boot. Isn't that what Terry is always flaming about? -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message