From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 31 05:34:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00458 for freebsd-arch-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00453 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:34:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA02996 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:33:50 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA82089 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:33:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22798 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA08904; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:44:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA00510; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:44:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:44:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199812291744.KAA00510@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kld and on demand device loading In-Reply-To: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org> References: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the long term, I'd love to see something like that. I believe that > it dovetails well with the new-bus project nicely. In the near term, > an area that it fits fairly well is the pcmica stuff. When a card is > inserted, the module is loaded, and when removed it is released. I looked into doing this almost 2 years ago, but unfortunately the 'unload' capability in FreeBSD is almost non-existent. Even simply 'unloading' of IRQ's doesn't work reliably, let alone network devices, SCSI bus's, serial ports, etc.... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message