Re: Cosmetic path to bsdinstall

On 02/24/11 14:14, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:00:44 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> Thanks! I've received basically this patch from a couple people now. I'm
>> going to investigate whether this is a more generic way to get this
>> information (so the list doesn't grow infinitely long), and will commit
>> this if I can't. Having CAM devices be part of newbus would simplify
>> this a very great deal...
> Note that all these disk devices are not CAM devices, so CAM changing to
> use new-bus wouldn't really matter one whit.  They do all show up as 'DISK'
> GEOM's however (I also hacked on a GEOM-based libdisk replacement at one
> point, though probably less developed than Marcel's.  I used libgeom to
> discover DISK devices.)  Given that disk_create() already hooks into GEOM,
> that is probably the right way to discover disks in a generic fashion.

Right, stepping through that is how I build the list. Adding a device 
description to the XML actually seems like a good idea (and maybe the 
drive serial number?). Would anyone have any objections to me starting 
to go through and do that?
-Nathan