On Nov 17, 11:50am, der Mouse wrote:
> Subject: Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?
> >> It's possible in some ports (such as the alpha) to get the name of
> >> the loaded kernel.
>
> > Huh?  It's possible on _every_ port -- just pass it in to the booted
> > kernel.
>
> Well, possible on every port that has its own bootblocks.  (Which
> currently is all the ports, isn't it?)
>
> However, that name may not be useful.  It may be on a filesystem the
> kernel doesn't grok, it may be on a floppy that's not even in the drive
> any longer...doesn't some port (Mac? Amiga?) load the kernel from a
> native filesystem file instead of from a UFS/NFS/etc filesystem file?

Such as the arm32 port for instance where there is no NetBSD support for the
Acorn ADFS filesystem.

Cheers

Rob Black

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