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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:07:45 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building a kernel with disabled devices
Message-ID:  <19980722130745.43611@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807220959.LAA05052@cdsec.com>; from Graham Wheeler on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 11:59:31AM %2B0200
References:  <199807220959.LAA05052@cdsec.com>

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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 11:59:31AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Another question on kernel building - is there a way that a kernel can be
> built in which all the network devices are present but disabled, so that
> on the first boot with that kernel none of them are probed? Yes, I know
> that I could build a kernel, boot with -c and disable the devices, and
> the resulting kernel would be what I want, but I would like to be able
> to do this without having to boot the kernel, so that I can have a
> Makefile that will build several kernels, each of which will have the
> NIC drivers disabled, without having to go through multiple reboots 
> each time to do the disabling.

eivind(bitbox)--% grep disable /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC  
device          apm0    at isa? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management
device          sio2    at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
device          sio3    at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
eivind(bitbox)--% 

'nuf said?

Eivind.

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