Subject: Re: Boot properties, take 3
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/20/2007 12:42:26
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.
--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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