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Subject: Re: Auto kernel module loading
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In message: <xzp3ck8em92.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
            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