Solution? Re: pxe-install on FreeBSD 5.3

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200410261704.49182.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:24 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <200410211505.27635.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>> >> Doesn't the search terminate if [0] is NULL ?
>> >
>> >Perhaps there should be a small wrapper function to register a candidate
>> > root with an associated priority and that wrapper function could then
>> > manage the rootdevnames[] array and keep them sorted based on the
>> > priority?
>>
>> No, the entire thing should be rototiled.
>
>Well, the interface I'm thinking of is something like
>'rootdevice_add(const char *name, int priority)' or maybe 
>'rootdevice_add(dev_t dev, int priority)' (which won't work for NFS, so I 
>guess back to the char * version) and not having the array or linked list or 
>whatever of names visible outside vfs_mount.c (or where the root mount code 
>lives).

After looking again I think I'll change my position:  This entire thing
should be yanked out and we should rely on the loader to set the right
variables instead.

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