On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:19:55PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <E842D9CC-DEA8-4198-825F-46ED29437AE0_at_mac.com>, Marcel > > Moolenaar wri > > tes: > > > >>> In message <D29A6039-5105-49CB-B613-DD561CDD1A89_at_mac.com>, Marcel > >>> Moolenaar wri > >>> tes: > >>> > >>>> For boot0cfg this is probably acceptable, because > >>>> it only operates on MBRs. But as a generic solution > >>>> this won't work. > >>> > >>> Then pick up the bootcode via ioctls, it does not belong > >>> in the confxml sysctl. > >> > >> On what grounds doesn't it belong in the confxml? > > > > Because the way we (currently) implement confxml and the uses it is > > put to would generally be greatly inconvenienced if you have to > > include > > 8KB of hexdump data in the xml stream. > > > >> And how do these not apply to ioctls? > > > > ioctls was designed and built to move binary blobs across the > > userland/kernel barrier to and from I/O devices. > How about the way that was done in GEOM_MBR? Defining a verb like "write MBR", and supply the mbr as a parameter with gctl? (Currently used by boot0cfg). -- Ulf LilleengenReceived on Wed Feb 18 2009 - 14:59:56 UTC
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