[UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.3

[Warner Losh]

On May 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

>> On May 4, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
>> 
>>> Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> Proud to bring you version 1.3 which completes the followup
>>> suggestions made by Olivier Smedts (use autoboot_delay instead of
>>> loader_menu_timeout and change dc_seconds to loader_delay) and a
>>> couple other minor enhancements/fixes.
>>> 
>>> I think that brings everything up to speed with the phenomenal
>>> feedback provided so far. Really, thank you all very much.
>>> 
>>> Get your update at http://druidbsd.sf.net/ or
>>> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/loader_menu-1.3.tgz
>> 
>> Devin, have you thought about writing a port [1]? I'd be happy to
>> review it:
>> 
>> [1]
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/own-port.html
>> 
> 
> I'm going to see if I can't make it perfectly acceptable for base first. If the
> final version gets rejected for submission to base, I'll turn to ports.
> 
> On a side-note, it'd be a pretty interesting port... considering the fact that
> I'm already distributing it as a FreeBSD package (what would the Makefile for
> that port look like... a call to fetch followed by a call to pkg_add ?? lol --
> are there other ports that already work like that?).

In the FreeBSD developer's summit today, there was broad support for bringing it into base for 9.0.

Warner