From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 21:44:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CFA37B401; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5919B43E4A; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:44:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g6P4iAr07566; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20965; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22416; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:42:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P4dWjF050138; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:39:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@hollin.btc.adaptec.com) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6P4dVdn050137; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:39:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:39:31 -0600 From: Scott Long To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <20020725043931.GB50119@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: <20020705005426Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724173037.GE87477@sunbay.com> <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:47:01PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> > Makoto Matsushita writes: > : > : ru> This was "broken" again. I don't have any ideas of what to move > : ru> out. > : > : There are some ideas to do around boot floppies in my mind: > : > : 1) More drivers to move kernel modules, including other network > : drivers, pccard and friends, filesystems, etc. Apparantly it > : reduces kernel size so kern.flp will fit to 1.44MB again. It > : requires some consideration that which driver can be moved as a > : kernel module. > > I've noticed that some of the older cam drivers are about all that is > in the way of making CAM truly loadable. By that I mean having a > kernel with all supported devices that aren't loadable forces CAM to > be in the kernel because some of the SCSI devices aren't (yet) > loadable. However, that's relatively easy to fix. > > Warner Makeing ahc and ahd loadable is in our pipeline. It's somewhat hindered by the dependancy on the firmware compiler, so it's not as trivial as it seems. People are welcome to tackle the other CAM drivers. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message