Well, after the little thread last week about this, I grew kind of tired 
of the arguing about it, and decided to implement a proof-of-concept, MI 
ISA "userconfig" thing...it's pretty rough, and needs to be made 
bus-independent, but it's a start, anyhow.

In any case, this took about 20 minutes to write, so doing it isn't that 
hard...maybe next week I'll work on the bus-independent version...

If anyone has suggestions about what they'd like to see (within reason) 
in a NetBSD "userconfig", go ahead and let me know...No, I don't want to 
put menus in the kernel :-)

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Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center                               Home: 408.866.1912
NAS: M/S 258-6                                          Work: 415.604.0935
Moffett Field, CA 94035                                Pager: 415.428.6939

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NetBSD 1.1A (ANTIE) #434: Sat Mar  2 18:12:02 PST 1996
    thorpej@antie:/work/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ANTIE
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real mem  = 16384000
avail mem = 13885440
using 225 buffers containing 921600 bytes of memory
isa0 (root)
isa0: enter userconfig mode? y/[n] yes
isa config: locators for device `ed0 at isa0':
            port=0x280 iomem=0xd0000 irq=9 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: enter new locator values, <return> for no change
isa config: ed0 at isa0: port=0x280 ? 0x300
isa config: ed0 at isa0: iomem=0xd0000 ? 
isa config: ed0 at isa0: irq=9 ? 
isa config: ed0 at isa0: drq=<wildcarded> ? 
isa config: locators for device `ed0 at isa0':
            port=0x300 iomem=0xd0000 irq=9 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: enter new locator values, <return> for no change
isa config: ed0 at isa0: port=0x300 ? 280
isa config: ed0 at isa0: iomem=0xd0000 ? 
isa config: ed0 at isa0: irq=9 ? 
isa config: ed0 at isa0: drq=<wildcarded> ? 
isa config: locators for device `ed0 at isa0':
            port=0x280 iomem=0xd0000 irq=9 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `ed0 at isa0'? y/[n] no
ed0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff irq 9: address 00:00:c0:94:f6:72, type WD8013WC (16-bit) aui
isa config: locators for device `npx0 at isa0':
            port=0xf0 iomem=<wildcarded> irq=13 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `npx0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `npx0 at isa0'? y/[n] no
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
isa config: locators for device `vt0 at isa0':
            port=0x60 iomem=<wildcarded> irq=1 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `vt0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `vt0 at isa0'? y/[n] no
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: generic, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.32]
isa config: locators for device `lms0 at isa0':
            port=0x23c iomem=<wildcarded> irq=5 drq=<wildcarded>
isa config: probe for device `lms0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `lms0 at isa0'? y/[n] no
lms0 at isa0 port 0x23c-0x23f irq 5
isa config: locators for device `fdc0 at isa0':
            port=0x3f0 iomem=<wildcarded> irq=6 drq=2
isa config: probe for device `fdc0 at isa0'? y/[n] yes
isa config: edit locators for device `fdc0 at isa0'? y/[n] no
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
eisa0 (root)
ahb0 at eisa0 slot 1 irq 11: Adaptec AHA-1742A
scsibus0 at ahb0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, PD1225S, 3142> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1169MB, 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, PD1225S, 3142> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 1169MB, 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK438FB, 5157> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2: 859MB, 1980 cyl, 11 head, 80 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd3 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK438FB, 5157> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd3: 859MB, 1980 cyl, 11 head, 80 sec, 512 bytes/sec
biomask 840 netmask a40 ttymask a62
changing root device to sd0a