Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:47:20 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: ognir@humboldt1.com (Joe Groff) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576 Message-ID: <199908100517.OAA09396@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990809221225.268A-100000@shovel.groff> from "Joe Groff" at Aug 9, 99 10:14:26 pm
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Stephen Hocking wrote:
> The recent chatter about allowing kldload to give modules arguments is very
> interesting, as it would allow one to specify port addresses and the like.
Would it be useful to be able to be able to do something like this:
kldload -t kernel_config /sys/i386/conf/YOURKERNELNAME
... and have drivers consult the information they find in there for
config hints?
If newbus knew how to reconstruct config_devtab at runtime by parsing
a "kernel_config" module's "device" and "controller" lines, we'd get
dynamic runtime reconfiguration for free. It could even defer the
initial construction of config_devtab until boot-time if you used
"options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" to provide default configuration data...
- mark
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