Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:51:33 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modular ata chipsets data Message-ID: <48EDF045.8030604@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <200810081743.45011.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <48E6D21E.8040808@bluezbox.com> <48E7AE7D.6020709@bluezbox.com> <8C0B1202-5DF8-45CF-82EA-03367BFABAE7@FreeBSD.ORG> <200810081743.45011.jhb@freebsd.org>
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on 09/10/2008 00:43 John Baldwin said the following: > What happens with mii is that you have a choice, you can either use 'device > miibus' in which case you get all of the various drivers and the > infrastructure, or you can use 'device mii', 'device rlphy', etc. if you wish > to take a more fine-grained approach. Similarly, there is a miibus.ko that > just depends on all the sub-drivers so you can still do 'kldload miibus.ko' > to load all of them. I think this is probably a fine model as it will still > load everything by default, but people who care about the space savings can > trim things down as desired. Sorry for hijacking the thread but is this documented anywhere? On RELENG_7 system I couldn't find the above info in NOTES and miibus(4), only device miibus is referred to. -- Andriy Gapon
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