On 19-Jun-07, at 3:09 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> And I hope the answer is "no", because "yes" would mean that in some
> cases, you would have to boot the system, edit the configuration  
> file, and
> reboot, which is really inconvenient. Especially because changing the
> configuration can be a prerequisite for successfull boot. The exact
> format of the configuration file does not matter here.

My latest patch, which I'll make available later today, addresses  
this for the current implementation.

The bootloader pulls in /netbsd.plist, has the ability to read/write  
the dictionary itself, then the (potentially updated) plist is passed  
to the kernel. If you happened to have done 'boot -c', any changes  
made in userconf are reflected in the bootprops dictionary.

If you like what you see, you can run 'bootprops dump >/netbsd.plist'  
to capture the current state. No need to reboot because you're  
already running the way you want.

Cheers,
Jared