Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:08:12 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect? Message-ID: <1445540892.14963.22.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com> References: <0F998D21-682B-4B41-8248-B072F468184B@netapp.com>
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On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the > "env" functionality described in config(5). > > When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that > the tunables are compiled in. > > 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. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Lars 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. -- Ian
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