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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting 
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> >> <<On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:24:43 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.
> >    dk> said:
> >> 
> >> > If your're asking me, the identification of the VGA chips is
> >> > something which should be killed, it doesn't belong in the kernel.
> >> 
> >> But we'll have ELF kernels soon enough, so theoretically we could put
> >> all of that stuff in its own section and then release the memory after
> >> boot.
> >> 
> >> Isn't that what Terry is always flaming about?
> >
> >Don't joke...  It's not all that difficult - 
> 
> But you miss the point:  boot-time-only probing will soon be a thing
> of the past.  

Doubtful, w/out a *TON* of changes to the kernel.  The current 'state of
the art' in FreeBSD is a long ways away from dynamic driver adding, and
my attempts to garner support were met with 'not in my kernel, thank you
very much'.



Nate

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