env functionality of config(5) has no effect?

[Eggert, Lars]

amd64

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> On Oct 22, 2015, at 21:08, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the
>> "env" functionality described in config(5).
>> 
>> When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that
>> the tunables are compiled in.
>> 
>> However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel,
>> and they also don't show up when running kenv(1) after boot.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Lars
> 
> I finally found a few minutes to look into this today.  You didn't say
> what platform you're working with.  It appears that this has only ever
> worked on i386 and a handful of old arm and mips platforms.
> 
> -- Ian