Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:42:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away Message-ID: <199908212142.OAA01423@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:46:01 MDT." <199908212046.OAA48501@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199908211951.MAA00837@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : APM is only attached to the ISA bus for crufty reasons; I'm going to > > Actually, APM is attached to NEXUS. Why pass it kernel environment > variables when it will likely be modified to grok whatever config > scheme comes from newbus? Because it's not a device, or more specifically, if it should be attached to anything, it should be attached to a 'bios' bus. The kernel environment is simply a convenient way to make it work right now, rather than waiting for the newbus parameter stuff to arrive (which will likely be carried in the environment anyway). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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