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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:41:36 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        rnordier@nordier.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/boot.conf -> /boot/boot.rc
Message-ID:  <199901101041.MAA09609@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <51112.915963995@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 10, 99 02:26:35 am"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Hmmm.  How about a compromise, since I'm still hung up on the POLA
> argument for legacy users of boot2?  Have it look in both locations,
> /boot/boot2.conf being first, and don't print an error message if it
> can't find one of them.  Would that be too many speculative reads?

I'd be happy with that.  Though I'd prefer to make this a transitional
measure, say to be dropped before the 3.2 release (or whenever).

There's only 7K available for boot2 (with, for example, 144 bytes
of free space at the moment).  Even a new version of gcc may reduce
to a negative value.

--
Robert Nordier

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