From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 09:09:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11A9E4CF; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0EFF8CB; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C4856A6008; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:09:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id sAP99fMs015417; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:09:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id sAP99cZS014180; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:09:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:09:38 +0100 From: Lars Engels To: moto kawasaki Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <20141125090938.GH15721@e-new.0x20.net> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141125.105157.1187546753207512759.moto@kawasaki3.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9sSKoi6Rw660DLir" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141125.105157.1187546753207512759.moto@kawasaki3.org> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p16 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: arch@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:09:45 -0000 --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:51:57AM +0900, moto kawasaki wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > Thank you very much developers for giving me such a nice OS > up-to-date. >=20 > It sounds reasonable for me to remove old devices from GENERIC. > But may I ask a question? >=20 > If removed, how can I use those device drivers ? > Do I need to re-compile kernel ? > Or, can I use one of them with kldload ? > Is it automatically loaded during the boot process, with charm in > /boot/loader.conf ? >=20 > I personally runs fxp and dc on my home pc, so I am very curious. >=20 > Thank you very much. >=20 >=20 > Best Regards, >=20 You can usually just load the kernel module with kldload(8). --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJUdEdSXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4RjQwMDE3RTRERjUzMTI1N0FGRTUxNDlF NTRDQjM3RDNBMDg5RDZEAAoJEOVMs306CJ1t9dcH/RG5+UKvvbLwdcusLZFccWbP 7YISRm5eIdNxc99UGYx44k9Q6ADbQMAvud+bDLxvpUolm3HNuTiv15K2NpB9ZULH VUP/wR8VCdtEwqkpio3t9vjCRZngtPn0CehmpWRIqAfDnVV02l9a5q/Hpaf4WK4D 2aL9b3vkB5dMbXYwsOI1PswHTyBHuoH036KY8YnP2zKvZ2sKbvNyUYJvTQvraDRA iNMNTbnAJR/fc+6mEmc2r68wtI0Gh4bNtfEDn0f+o/sVb31GS55m9WJS0lKzgCL+ ywVfKdQz/C+gVOizINipKPCZSsAQEuReQy0/pg0rMOtDYZsdPZ8GPei+3EwW0tU= =7Scn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir--