Devin,
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:45:14PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: > >On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> >> Devin, >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:00:47PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: >>> >>>> Would be nice: "uname -v" of the kernel it will boot. >>> >>> That's a bit more technically challenging. I'll have another look at the >>> FICL words available, but I don't recall if there was a way to crawl the >>> object space of the items loaded with ``load'' (looking for the uname). I'm >>> open to suggestions if you had an idea of how to do this in Forth -- else >>> I'd think this would need to be a loader(8) modification. >> >> How about forgetting a mention of unmae & ... instead look into if we >> can support some sort of bootcode versioning to be displayed on the >> screen. This would serve to be very helpful in the future when for say a >> new version of bootcode for ZFS has to be installed then it would be >> easy for announce@ to simply say "A new version of ZFS has been MFCd and >> requires boot version >= X. To find out your version please see the >> bottom right hand corner of your boot screen." >> >> I would place a pretty good bet that loader(8) could be modified to >> export some sort of versioning of the bootcode to make this a easier >> stance for the user to gather information before a upgrade. > >Piece of cake! If you give me a loader(8) that exports a "version" environment >variable, I'll give the Forth functionality in mere seconds. It's already been >developed (but was not packaged). > >I have a module named "version.4th" which prints the value of the "version" >environment variable at the bottom-right of the screen underneath the beastie >logo. > >Since you mention this, I'll add the code to the next package and if/when >loader(8) ever exports a "version" environment variable, it will just >magically appear. How's that sound? > Sounds perfect! -- Regards, (jhell) Jason Hellenthal
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