Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:48:42 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>, void <float@firedrake.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607084842.C11781@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20000607124949.A25014@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:50:03AM -0400 References: <20000607013058.A32270@firedrake.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006070059290.2618-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> <20000607014353.A10364@cokane.yi.org> <20000607124949.A25014@mithrandr.moria.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Well, a lot of drivers aren't modules yet. It was basically an idea to move the kernel more towards a modular implementation. There will be a large number of modules if all the drivers were to become modules. It may not be, say, to everyone's liking to manually load a good deal of those. Plus, there are many people who use FreeBSD for desktop or home situations and even those who don't know a extremely large amount about computer hardware and all. This would be a nice "option" to have for some. Neil Blakey-Milner had the audacity to say: > > It might be nice to start running on modules regularly. It would also > > be useful to be able to update your device driver while running > > freebsd, without needing to reboot. > > You can already do this. kldunload the old module, and kldload the new > module. Or am I missing something again? > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000607084842.C11781>