Subject: Re: FYI: sysctl machdep.booted_kernel added
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/07/1996 01:31:13
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:21:15 +1100 (EST) 
>  John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> wrote:
> 
>  > My silly question of the day is: Does 'machdep' here mean only
>  > alpha or will this work for other ports too?
> 
> Alpha only.

Sort of unfortunate, too; i'd much rather have this in the MI sysctl
MIB, but didn't want to deal with the same set of flames that came up
the last time anybody proposed that.

So for now it's a useful feature that only the alpha port has.  8-)


chris