Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 04:15:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hints static wiring Message-ID: <14763.32541.584299.589745@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org> <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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First, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to explain what was going on. It's now clear that I was confused, and things aren't as bad as I thought. I'd like to see the Makefile changes so that if there wasn't an empty /boot/device.hints, one was created, but that's relatively minor. Brooks Davis writes: > This is more correct. The new world order says that hints are not in the > kernel, instead they are loaded by the loader at boot time. By default > they are loaded from /boot/device.hints. Without hints in some form old, > stupid devices don't work. Unfortunatly, PC consoles are old, stupid > devices for compatability reasons so it's best to have a working hints > file around. Just curious - are there no defaults at all if you don't have a hints file somewhere? That seems a bit strange. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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