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From: Gordon Tetlow (gordon_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 08/05/04

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    Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:36:51 -0700
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>

    On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:11:33PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
    > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:05 pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
    > >
    > > a) not everyone knows about nextboot, putting it in the makefile and
    > > documenting it will allow more people to know about it
    >
    > That I debate. :) Having a bikeshed on arch@ might let more people know about
    > it, but documenting things doesn't always make them more widely known.
    > There's a reason they are called FAQs. Also, the intended audience for this
    > target is mostly developers, and they probably already know about nextboot.

    As the author of the current incarnation of nextboot, I was surprised with
    the number of people on IRC that said things like "I wish I could boot a
    kernel for a single run, and if it crashed it would automagically revert
    to the previous kernel." Well, this is exactly what nexboot does since we
    have write support in the loader.

    So I think there are a fair number of developers that aren't familiar with
    what nextboot does.

    -gordon

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