[RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

[Devin Teske]

On May 3, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote:

> 
> Devin,
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:45:14PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote:
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>> On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
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>>> Devin,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:00:47PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote:
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>>>>> Would be nice: "uname -v" of the kernel it will boot.
>>>> 
>>>> That's a bit more technically challenging. I'll have another look at the
>>>> FICL words available, but I don't recall if there was a way to crawl the
>>>> object space of the items loaded with ``load'' (looking for the uname). I'm
>>>> open to suggestions if you had an idea of how to do this in Forth -- else
>>>> I'd think this would need to be a loader(8) modification.
>>> 
>>> How about forgetting a mention of unmae & ... instead look into if we
>>> can support some sort of bootcode versioning to be displayed on the
>>> screen. This would serve to be very helpful in the future when for say a
>>> new version of bootcode for ZFS has to be installed then it would be
>>> easy for announce@ to simply say "A new version of ZFS has been MFCd and
>>> requires boot version >= X. To find out your version please see the
>>> bottom right hand corner of your boot screen."
>>> 
>>> I would place a pretty good bet that loader(8) could be modified to
>>> export some sort of versioning of the bootcode to make this a easier
>>> stance for the user to gather information before a upgrade.
>> 
>> Piece of cake! If you give me a loader(8) that exports a "version" environment variable, I'll give the Forth functionality in mere seconds. It's already been developed (but was not packaged).
>> 
>> I have a module named "version.4th" which prints the value of the "version" environment variable at the bottom-right of the screen underneath the beastie logo.
>> 
>> Since you mention this, I'll add the code to the next package and if/when loader(8) ever exports a "version" environment variable, it will just magically appear. How's that sound?
>> 
> 
> Sounds perfect!

One minor adjustment... can we make that environment variable "loader_version" instead of "version"?

The code is already in for "loader_version". Whatever string you export into that environment variable will be displayed on-screen at bottom-right, right-justified.
-- 
Devin

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