Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:15:42 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect? Message-ID: <641BBA24-447D-453C-B2E2-47503559A517@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org> References: <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com>, <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org>
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amd64 --=20 Sent from a mobile device; please excuse typos. +49 151 120 55791 > On Oct 22, 2015, at 21:08, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the >> "env" functionality described in config(5). >>=20 >> When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that >> the tunables are compiled in. >>=20 >> However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel, >> and they also don't show up when running kenv(1) after boot. >>=20 >> Any ideas? >>=20 >> Thanks, >> Lars >=20 > I finally found a few minutes to look into this today. You didn't say > what platform you're working with. It appears that this has only ever > worked on i386 and a handful of old arm and mips platforms. >=20 > -- Ian
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