Peter Pentchev wrote: > 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.
I agree in principle, but read what Peter Wemm wrote: this is about an ISA device. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
