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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:54:12 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <20030219.085412.66112033.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20030219014824S.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: I think that most drivers are on the first floppy simply because it's
: there.  With the advent of a driver floppy and boot-from-CD, assuming
: drivers can properly handle being loaded as modules, we should definitely
: prefer modules over direct linking from now on for the floppy install.

The only issues I've seen with loading from floppies is that if you
have a cardbus/pccard in the machine at boot, a bug in the cardbus
layer would turn off that card when a new module was loaded.

Warner

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