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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 17:17:31 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCCardd
Message-ID:  <392F849B.D1D5D147@newsguy.com>
References:  <200005241229.VAA00370@daniel.sobral> <200005262204.QAA92794@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <200005241229.VAA00370@daniel.sobral> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
> : Motivated, I further investigated /etc/rc, and moved pccard
> : initialization to right before swapon, edited my fstab, added dumpdev to
> : my /etc/rc.conf (with the -z), moved pccard* and logger to /sbin and
> : voila'! Things now work as I need them to.
> 
> Cool.  One reason we didn't do that is that it will take a long time
> to boot on some machines.  The card init stuff takes approx 30 seconds
> in OLDCARD.

I know that, but -z can be specified on rc.conf optionally. The moving
around requires changing rc, which causes trouble with mergemaster
later, and the /usr/[s]bin->/sbin change.

> : Now, I know the new card stuff is going to be very different, but will I
> : have the ability to get my aic drives up and running before swapon gets
> : run? Depending on how things are planned to work, I'd suggest adding
> : some sort of flag by which devices that need to get going earlier, such
> : as aic, can be probed for separately (and earlier) than those that need
> : to be brought up later, for whatever reasons.
> 
> Well, NetBSD kinda supports having root on a pccard device, if the
> ROMs support it.  I say kinda, because it supports 1 card, but not two
> last time I checked.

Are there ROMs which support pccard? Interesting...

> NEWCARD, which is a port from NetBSD, will have at most a couple of
> seconds of delays and won't need pccardd to be running to do device
> attachment.

Good. :-)

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
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		"Sentience hurts."


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