Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:30:12 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting Message-ID: <199810011530.JAA09811@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <294.907228768@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199809302334.HAA15192@spinner.netplex.com.au> <294.907228768@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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