Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:08:17 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic hints Message-ID: <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com> References: <20030212013104.86B6F2A8C2@canning.wemm.org> <xzp65rpkdf4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes: > > Yes, sort-of. kenv(8) can change the strings. But I suspect it is too > > late for something like isa since I think it would have done a pass at boot > > to create the attachment nodes. But as configuration knobs for drivers > > that want to examine a string directly via getenv() etc, those would not be > > too late. > > It wouldn't be too late for loadable modules... Don't most ISA probes have to happen a "the wrong time" because their resources are unrelocatable? That would argue against post-boot-time hints... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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