Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting Message-ID: <199809302030.QAA17624@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <24843.907183483@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301346000.353-100000@picnic.mat.net> <24843.907183483@critter.freebsd.dk>
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<<On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:24:43 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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
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