bin/93857: Utility for loading the kernel charset translation tables on system boot

[Gleb Smirnoff]

The following reply was made to PR bin/93857; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
To: Dmitry Kazarov <kazarov at mcm.ru>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, mlaier at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/93857: Utility for loading the kernel charset translation tables on system boot
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:39:29 +0300

 On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:20:57PM +0000, Dmitry Kazarov wrote:
 D> >Synopsis:       Utility for loading the kernel charset translation tables on system boot
 
 I've heard opinion that current API for loading tables into kernel is
 hack. Don't remember exactly, who said this. Afaik it can be found in
 some other PR.
 
 Now in FreeBSD we have a special API to load some data blob into kernel -
 firmwire(9). Is it possible to rewrite charset translation tables
 loading code to use this API? Is it a good idea?
 
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