Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:21:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006181219310.83479-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <20000617003740.ECD471CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > Chia-liang Kao wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there anyway to put the device.hint stuff into kernel nevertheless? > > My diskless box fetches the kernel would know nothing about things reside > > in device.hint. > > That is what the hints directive is for. > > you could create a file "diskless.hints" and add the line to your config > file: > hints "/wherever/diskless.hints" > and the contents of that file would be statically compiled in. You can still > override them at boot time if you wish, but the basic set will be there. > > This is what GENERIC does right now. It compiles GENERIC.hints straight in. > (see hints.c in compile/YOURKERNEL) This thread is long, so maybe I missed something.. Can we have the *.hints file loadable as a module of some special type (like kernel.conf), and searched for during configuration like userconfig did? Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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