Subject: Re: one for the wishlist/ROADMAP: saving userconf'd kernels
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/15/2007 02:12:17 
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> If memory serves, BSDI read some file in /etc to handle such functions
> at boot time.  Very convenient!

/etc sounds like a bootloader that needs to do the work, which requires 
modifying ~50 bootloaders at worst. I think just modifying the kernel 
binary (somehow :) seems slim. No idea how hard it is to realize, though, 
in our current framework.


  - Hubert