Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:30:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic hints Message-ID: <3E4A3051.52402DFC@mindspring.com> References: <20030212013104.86B6F2A8C2@canning.wemm.org> <xzp65rpkdf4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3E4A2B21.809681CE@mindspring.com> <20030212111455.GA376@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:08:17AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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... > > So modules that do ISA probes will not use or honor post-boot-time > hints. This does not mean that no other module will ever benefit from > passing any kind of parameters at load time; it is true that this > feature may be abused, but it may actually be *used*, too, and there are > people who would definitely find it useful for passing some parameters > to some modules. I agree in principle, but read what Peter Wemm wrote: this is about an ISA device. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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