From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 22 12:32:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA02864 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:32:05 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA02856 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:31:59 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08323; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:31:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:31:17 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502222031.AA08323@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers in FreeBSD 2.0 In-Reply-To: <9502221712.AA24001@cs.weber.edu> References: <9502221712.AA24001@cs.weber.edu> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < If it's not a boot device, you can load it as a kernel module -- there is > a large amount of kernel module sample code thanks mainly to Garrett. Not yet you can't. This probably won't make it into 2.1, but it will eventually be possible via devconf. (It's more likely that you'll see dynamically loadable discard, PPP, tunnel, and SLIP drivers, since those are easy. Well, discard, PPP, and SLIP are easy. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant