Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:11:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES) Message-ID: <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:35:19 %2B0930." <20020410143519.B22430@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <20020410143519.B22430@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >On Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 6:59:53 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20020410095141.M9535@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" w >> rites: >> >>> Why do we need to cut Uesrconfig out until there's some replacement? >> >> Suggest you revisit the cvs log for a blow by blow account. > >Which one? And why can't you summarize. The one you appearantly missed two years ago when userconfig disappeared. I could, except this happened nearly two years ago, so I would have expected that you had noticed by now: ] src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC revision 1.261 ] date: 2000/06/22 06:01:02; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1 ] Add SOFTUPDATES to GENERIC (BOOTMFS has this filtered out) ] ---------------------------- ] revision 1.260 ] date: 2000/06/13 22:28:46; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +40 -46 ] Borrow phk's axe and apply the next stage of config(8)'s evolution. ] ] Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the ] resource table at boot time. ] ] config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration ] no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your ] isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time: ] set hint.ed.0.port=0x320 ] ] userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will ] move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that. ] ] [...] >>> Specifically, what do people do when they're installing the system >>> from CD on an old ISA machine? It looks like they're stuck. >> >> They uses the loader and their hints file. > >Is that documented? This looks very much like hand-washing to me. And your email sounds like somebody who is a little too jumpy about my commits and who can't be bothered to check his own facts... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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