Subject: Re: Generic configuration requests outside of config files?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2006 17:12:37
In message <6EE70F08-9981-4609-8BE8-29601EA69072@shagadelic.org>, Jason Thorpe
writes:
>On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> The "board_info" feature should be promoted to be a kernel feature,
>> not tied
>> so closely to openbios.
>No, it shouldn't. device properties are the way to handle this.
>board_info only serves to propagate platform-dependencies to the rest
>of the kernel, which is not what we want.
"device properties"? Can you point me at these?
-s