From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 15: 9:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E37837B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10734; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA35866; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS In-Reply-To: <200008232149.PAA52708@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Aug 23, 2000 03:49:58 pm" To: Warner Losh Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Archie Cobbs , Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Hackers X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh writes: > : So why is it a separate option? > > because it is a driver. Why is pci a separate driver? While most > computers have it, not all do. Likewise with miibus. Ah.. but this analogy is not exact, because (for example) "device ed0" does not require PCI, wheras all of these miibus drivers do.. But you're probably right, since it's a driver maybe that's a good enough reason. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message