Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:40:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@ofug.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto kernel module loading Message-ID: <20030424.194048.101832902.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp3ck8em92.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200304171136.57515.agh@tpg.com.au> <3E9EB7DF.4040104@tcoip.com.br> <xzp3ck8em92.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> writes:
: > Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the
: > appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be
: > infered from a configuration file.
:
: You can't do it in the loader. It would have to scan the PCI bus,
: properly set up all bridges etc. to discover all devices. Keep going
: in that direction and you end up with a complete kernel instead of a
: minimal loader.
Yes. The devd stuff is designed to obviate the need for the loader to
grow this information...
Warner
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