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Date:      Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020409123111.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <17393.1018364044@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On 09-Apr-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <XFMail.20020409104454.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
> 
>>Have you implemented the replacement yet? :)  In my mind it was kind of there
>>as a reminder that we needed to do that.
> 
> No I havn't and neither have anybody else it seems.
> 
> And quite frankly, it doesn't look like the market pressure is there,
> given the existence of the hints file.

The replacement would specifically be a nice front-end to the hints concept
that would manipulate the default hints set via the loader environment.  It
might need an extra metadata file to match device drivers mentioned in the
hints to human-readable text strings, etc.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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