Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:23:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:18:19PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > Module Name:    src
> > > Committed By:   ad
> > > Date:           Tue Apr 29 19:18:19 UTC 2008
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >         src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64: mainbus.c
> > >         src/sys/arch/i386/i386: mainbus.c
> > >         src/sys/arch/x86/x86: cpu.c
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Recognise two new boot flags:
> > >
> > > -1 disable MP
> > > -2 disable ACPI
> > IMHO -2 isn't needed. boot -c + disable acpi does exactly the same thing,
> > isn't it ?
>
> The keyboard may or may not work until after autoconfiguration, depending
> on how the host system does the emulation.

Also you can use boot.cfg to pass these boot flags to the kernel, which 
we can't do with userconf.

x86 install media should probably be updated to give these options as 
default in a boot menu, and sysinst should remember these values and 
write a boot.cfg if you have booted the INSTALL kernel with alternate flags.

Cheers,
Jared