Re: vke & link level addressing

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, August 5, 2007 5:15 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Things start to get confusing when you pile on the features.  Instead
>     we might want to go to a kernel environment 'variable=data' style
>     syntax.
>
>     In fact, how about a way to specify an out-of-band /boot/loader.conf
>     file on the command line?

Would it be worth establishing a /etc/vkernel.conf file that contains
different profiles (selecting DHCP, which /boot/loader.conf, etc) in the
simple 'x=y' format above?

Given profiles could be grouped by name in that file, and then the name of
the profile could be supplied as the argument to the vkernel, saving a lot
of typing.  Multiple vkernels with the same profile can then be created by
specifying a class instead of explicit options every time, and we can ship
with a default profile.