Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:49:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS Message-ID: <200008232149.PAA52708@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 PDT." <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> References: <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com>
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In message <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> Archie Cobbs writes: : Warner Losh writes: : > : not marked. I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not : > : marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still : > : not marked? I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus commented : > : out, I'm just assuming it's still required : > : > miibus is still required for any ethernet card with a mii. Which is : > basically all of them produced in the last few years. my trusty : > ne2000 doesn't need it :-) : : Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of : the cards that require it? No. : I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those : drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have : a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers. Already does that. : So why is it a separate option? because it is a driver. Why is pci a separate driver? While most computers have it, not all do. Likewise with miibus. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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