Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:37:09 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: configurable device (and other) tables in the kernel ? Message-ID: <20070203073709.B10325@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20070203.082941.1649771040.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:29:41AM -0700 References: <20070201104506.B82313@xorpc.icir.org> <20070203115235.W91177@fledge.watson.org> <20070203043250.A8294@xorpc.icir.org> <20070203.082941.1649771040.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:29:41AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: ... > : All of the above can be fixed - especially the documentation part, > : but that doesn't mean that the hints mechanism can already do > : what i was asking; there is still a bit of work to do... > > True. Things could be better documented. > > However, the more fundamental problems remain. It does no good to > have a fancy binary loader with every kind of plug and play info if > few of the drivers in the system use tables in a consistant way. > That's a big problem to solve... well but that also can be fixed. e.g. many of the usb and quirks tables, i think, are already reasonably structured so if a mechanism is in place it won't take much work to adapt them, maybe one at a time. cheers luigi
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