atkbd: changing flags at boot time

[Sean Winn]

On 28/06/2005, at 2:16 AM, Freddie Cash wrote:

> On June 27, 2005 05:52 am, Joao Paulo Marques Mattos wrote:
>> Brian Candler wrote:
>>> [This is with FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE]
>
>> set in /boot/device.hints
>> hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x0"
>
> FreeBSD 4.x supports device.hints?  I thought that was a 5.x feature.
>
>>> So I tried putting
>>>   hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x00"
>>> in /boot/loader.conf, but that didn't make any difference.
>
> Change the flags parameter in the kernel config file, and recompile the
> kernel.
>
>>> Does this mean that it's impossible to clear this flag without
>>> recompiling the kernel? If so, is there a reason for this?
>
> From what I know of 4.x, the only way to change device flags is to
> recompile the kernel.  5.x has the handy device.hints file and you can 
> set
> hints via /boot/loader.conf (preferred as device.hints is overwritten
> during installworld).
>

Not quite.

from /boot/loader.conf:

userconfig_script_load="YES"

from /boot/kernel.conf:

flags atkbd0 0
quit


Or you can use "boot -c" at the loader prompt, and use the 
configuration utility directly, but after that you'll need to use kget 
to save it permanently



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> Freddie Cash
> fcash at ocis.net
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