Re: New DFly ISO CD image available 20040506

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiten Pandya wrote:
> walt wrote:
>
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > > All you need to do is build the latest kernel
> > > like you usually do and boot with this line in
> >
> >
> >  > your /boot/loader.conf:
> >
> > >     kern.mmxopt=1
> >
> >
> >
> > Should this show up in sysctl -a along with the rest
> > of kern.* ?  I don't see it there.
>
>
>     It won't (yet) because it is a *loader* tunable.  It is
>     different from sysctl tunable.  I will add a readonly sysctl
>     for it later on.

Okay, thanks.  Meanwhile, is there any way for me to tell whether
the kernel actually saw and honored the entry in loader.conf?  Would
I see error messages in the logs if something went wrong?

My DFly box has been running just fine for 12 hours -- I hope I'm
really testing the right code  ;o)