On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:12:41AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >This looks very good. Thanks !
> 
> Yup!
> 
> 
> >With this we should probably be able to drop i386 GENERIC_NOACPI.
> >If we can also set some sysctl values from boot/userconf, we should also
> >be able to drop GENERIC_LAPTOP and INSTALL_LAPTOP !
> 
> I wonder how we'll do that from a user/installer point: thow in GENERIC, 
> and then have sets with different /netbsd.plist files to get _NOACPI, 
> _LAPTOP, etc. kernel flavours?
> 
> Will we stop having a lot of kernels, and have different .plist files for 
> the various flavours in the future?

Yes, it would be very nice to be able to specify a plist from the boot
loader prompt.

> 
> What about other ports than i386? Will they be adopted to this, which ones 
> can benefit from this new framework? amiga w/ DRACO and "normal" AMIGA 
> kernels? Others?

I guess all ports with a netbsd bootloader could benefit from it, but
the bootloader needs to be changed to load the plist and pass it to
the kernel.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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