From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 28 21:24:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lion.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [194.87.112.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEF315424 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:24:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by lion.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10RUVk-0002v3-00; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:56 +0700 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:56 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Doug Rabson Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kld questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > The motivation behind this question is that the driver allocates its > > own memory for receives, and wraps external mbufs around that memory. [skip] > > The current pci code has some remnants of old LKM support but I don't > think it includes anything functional. The new pci code which I am slowly > working on will support loadable drivers (that is the whole point really). Andrew also ask about 'unload' functionality, if this will be implemented how the problem with interface detach will be solved ? Having ability to detach any interface should greatly simplify development for both hardware and software interfaces. -- Boris Popov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message