Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:57:08 -0800 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Alistar Erlas <millueradfa@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling atapi-cam and other kernel features Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060107083947.035b0d40@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <20060107160432.92136.qmail@web36912.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060107160432.92136.qmail@web36912.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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At 08:04 AM 1/7/2006, Alistar Erlas wrote: >Recently, I read in the FreeBSD handbook, that in >order to use the atapi-cam support, it has to be >compiled into the kernel. Why not include the >atapi-cam support in a module that can simply be >loaded by the user without rebooting the machine? test60# ls -l /boot/kernel/atapicam.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16892 Dec 31 00:21 /boot/kernel/atapicam.ko > It >seems like it would be much eisier and less of a >hassle that way. It seems like recompiling the kernel >(I have done it before) is an awful lot of work How is it a lot of work? All you have to do is=20 edit your kernel config, cd to /usr/src and do make buildkernel= installkernel > just >to be able to use some features of the DVD drive which >most new computers have these days. The user should be >able to add new hardware support to the kernel and >reconfigure as much of it as possible without >recompiling it, or even rebooting it. This is >especially true in troubleshooting where quick changes >may be needed and where recompiling each time a >setting is changed becomes quite awkward. Allowing >more run time configuration would both make FreeBSD >more configurable and expert friendly as well as >easier to use for everyone. I think in order to make >software easy to use, it needs to be highly >configurable, and not require a recompile just to add >hardware support. Most things don't require a reboot. I count 440=20 available modules in /boot/kernel, which makes it=20 very easy to add support for something that's not already compiled in. -Glenn >Thank you. > > > >__________________________________________ >Yahoo! DSL =AD Something to write home about. >Just $16.99/mo. or less. >dsl.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to= "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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