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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:00:00 +0100

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In fact with old ISA cards and 4.X, you have to pass some settings to
> > > the card (I/O port, IRQ, etc.), and the easiest way to do it is via the
> > > kernel config line (it's possible to override at boot these settings but
> > > not easy, if my memories are good), so in that case the modules bring
> > > nothing.  To sum up, it may be a good thing to push ISA NIC users to
> > > build a custom kernel to support their cards.  I'd even add does it
> > > worth to talk too much about ISA NICs?
> > 
> > Non PNP cards, yes.  In 5.x, you can add a few lines to loader.conf
> > and/or device.hints and load just fine.
> >
> 
> Yes, that's exactly the same thing for example with the sound cards, in
> the case of non-PnP ISA cards, the modules should not be used if your
> card does not use default settings (I'm talking about 4.X).
> I have a question, does kernel.conf settings may be used to pass
> settings to kernel modules under 4.X?

I don't know well enough to say definitively.  I ported 5.x hints to
4.x for my company's needs.

Warner