On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:08:17AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?
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